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Download NowTo deliver the best-available science the Lancet Countdown has developed an open, transparent, and rigorous process for the development and improvement of its indicators, data and methods. Read more about this process below.
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change publishes annual updates of 41 indicators developed by our experts across five key areas:
To track these five key areas we draw on over 120 world-class experts from a range of disciplines, including health and epidemiology, climate science, engineering, agriculture, transports, economy, and social and political sciences.
Our Indicators
The collaboration began its work with a public consultation, seeking to identify which areas of health and climate change could and should be tracked. Every year since, this suite of indicator has been expanded and improved, and our indicators span a range of disciplines and expertise. Each indicator in the Lancet Countdown’s assessment must:
The indicators must also be:
If you are interested in contributing to our research or helping to develop new indicators, please contact us at info@lancetcountdown.org
Strengthening Our Indicators
We are committed to continuously improving our indicators, ensuring we deploy the best-available science to track progress on health and climate change across the world. The Lancet Countdown’s report goes through two tiers of strict assessment processes:
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