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Understanding the international displacement of impacts of consumption 2025

Abstract

This report was undertaken to consider assumptions relevant to modelling the international displacement of environmental impacts of UK consumption.

The Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator is available online and presents data showing the environmental impacts associated with consumption of commodities across the world. It can be used, for example, to quantify the global footprint of environmental impacts from consumption of commodities in the UK.

The GEIC indicator is an important tool for understanding past impacts, but in its present form, it is not useful for weighing up the in situ effects of current domestic land use decisions with the potential global scale effects that they may have through displacement. Understanding the assumptions involved in modelling displacement is the first step in filling this evidence gap and paves the way for potential model development in future.

Recommendations made in this paper have been generated by a series of literature reviews, searches and expert consultation. They conclude that a simple model estimating the most likely location for displacement in the short-term could be developed by initially establishing the region of greatest predicted production growth, before overlaying biocapacity and commodity price at the country-level.

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Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2025·10·01

Citation
Hatton, C. & Harris, M. 2025. Sustainable Consumption: Understanding the international displacement of impacts of consumption. JNCC Report 807. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
This report was undertaken to consider assumptions relevant to modelling the international displacement of environmental impacts of UK consumption.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2025·10·30

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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