Monitoring offshore environmental impacts of trade

The document highlights that frameworks for monitoring the environmental consequences of commodity production and trade in locations other than where they are consumed are currently fragmented and underused. It asserts that G20 nations are uniquely positioned to overcome barriers related to framework coherence and government capacity. To address these issues, the brief recommends that the G20 promote the uptake of existing monitoring programmes, improve data disclosure, build organizational capacity, and collaborate on disseminating best practices.

• Frameworks designed to monitor overseas environmental impacts are essential for mitigating biodiversity loss and climate change, yet they are currently underused and fragmented.
• The primary obstacles to the effectiveness of these monitoring frameworks are a lack of coherence and insufficient government capacity to implement them.
• The G20 is recommended to use its influence to increase international awareness of existing frameworks, improve the disclosure of data, strengthen government capacity, and collaborate on the development of monitoring best practices.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2023). Monitoring offshore environmental impacts of trade. https://www.sei.org/publications/monitoring-offshore-environmental-impacts-trade/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Monitoring offshore environmental impacts of trade. 2023. https://www.sei.org/publications/monitoring-offshore-environmental-impacts-trade/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2023monitoring, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Monitoring offshore environmental impacts of trade}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2023}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/monitoring-offshore-environmental-impacts-trade/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }