Medical journal the Lancet to launch Planetary Health title | Climate Home - climate change news

"One of the world’s most influential medical publishers is set to launch a title focused on the overlap between public health and environmental issues.

The Lancet’s new open access journal, Planetary Health, is expected to amplify support for climate policies that come with health benefits – and avert those that come with unacceptable side effects.

Society has benefitted from exploiting natural resources, said the journal’s editor Raffaella Bosurgi in a podcast. 'But we have now gone beyond sustainable limits.'

As well as climate change, the title will look at topics such as water scarcity, air pollution and agricultural productivity.

Expected to release its first issue in the spring, Planetary Health is calling for research papers. It represents the publishers’ most sustained focus on these issues, following a number of special reports."