Draft indicator for UK overseas consumption impacts

The document outlines the creation of a suite of indicators to track the global environmental risks associated with UK commodity consumption, focusing initially on agricultural products.

• The UK relies heavily on imports for minerals, fuels, and food, with approximately 50% of the direct food supply sourced from other countries, making the sustainability of overseas consumption as critical as domestic production.
• A draft indicator for crop-driven agricultural products was developed to track the UK's material footprint, land use footprint, embedded greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, and embedded deforestation impacts for the period between 2005 and 2017.
• The project aims to evolve these preliminary results into an experimental statistic for Outcome Indicator Reporting, expanding the scope beyond agricultural commodities to include metrics such as water stress and biodiversity.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Draft indicator for UK overseas consumption impacts. https://www.sei.org/publications/draft-indicator-for-uk-overseas-consumption-impacts/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Draft indicator for UK overseas consumption impacts. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/draft-indicator-for-uk-overseas-consumption-impacts/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021draft, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Draft indicator for UK overseas consumption impacts}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/draft-indicator-for-uk-overseas-consumption-impacts/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }