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Exported environmental impacts
Consumption in one place can drive extraction, production, pollution and land-use pressure elsewhere through global trade.
Why it matters
Territorial environmental accounts can miss pressures embodied in imported goods and materials.
What the sources establish
UNEP's Global Resources Outlook documents large international inequalities and cross-border displacement in resource use and associated environmental impacts.
Source: https://www.unep.org/en/publications/report/global-resources-outlook-2024
Published action
No project on this issue has passed the IMPACT publication gate yet. That is not evidence that no work exists.
Known and not established
- Consumption-based estimates depend on models and should not be presented as direct observations of a particular supply chain.
- This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.
Sources
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Approaches associated with this problem
No independently reviewed solution comparison is published for this problem.
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