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DOI	10.1038/s41893-022-01055-8
	Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption
	Bruckner, Benedikt; Shan, Yuli; Prell, Christina; Zhou, Yannan; Zhong, Honglin; Feng, Kuishuang; Hubacek, Klaus
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2398-9629
页码	16
英文摘要	In our globalized economy, the consumption of goods and services induces economic benefits but also environmental pressures and impacts around the world. Consumption levels are especially high in the current 27 member countries of the European Union (EU), which are some of the wealthiest economies in the world. Here, we determine the global distribution of ten selected environmental pressures and impacts, as well as value added induced by EU consumption from 1995 to 2019. We show that large shares of all analysed environmental pressures and impacts are outsourced to countries and regions outside the EU, while more than 85% of the economic benefits stay within the member countries. But there is also uneven distribution of costs and benefits within the EU. Over the analysed period, pressures and impacts induced by EU consumption largely decreased within the EU but increased outside its borders. We show that Eastern European neighbours of the EU experienced the highest environmental pressures and impacts per unit of GDP associated with EU consumption. The findings of this research add to the discussions on outsourcing environmental pressures and impacts and highlight the need for a reduction of pressures and impacts induced by EU consumption. The global economy delivers benefits but affects the environment. A study finds that over the period 1995-2019 the environmental pressures and impacts of EU consumption of goods and services were outsourced to non-EU countries, while the benefits stayed within the EU but were not evenly distributed.
学科领域	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000920854200003
来源期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272646
作者单位	University of Groningen; University of Birmingham; University of Groningen; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geographic Sciences & Natural Resources Research, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS; Shandong University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bruckner, Benedikt,Shan, Yuli,Prell, Christina,et al. Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption[J],2022:16.
APA	Bruckner, Benedikt.,Shan, Yuli.,Prell, Christina.,Zhou, Yannan.,Zhong, Honglin.,...&Hubacek, Klaus.(2022).Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,16.
MLA	Bruckner, Benedikt,et al."Ecologically unequal exchanges driven by EU consumption".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY (2022):16.