Consumption‐Based Conservation Targeting: Linking Biodiversity Loss to Upstream Demand through a Global Wildlife Footprint

Kitzes, Justin; Berlow, Eric L.; Conlisk, Erin; Erb, Karl‐Heinz; Iha, Katsunori; Martinez, Neo D.; Newman, Erica A.; Plutzar, Christoph; Smith, Adam B.; Harte, John

doi:10.1111/con4.12321

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“…-GLOBIO (Alkemade et al, 2009), -biodiversity footprint based on multi-region input-output (MRIO), with some variants: (a) rare species threats analysis (Lenzen et al, 2012;Moran et al, 2016;Moran and Kanemoto, 2017), (b) species range and displacement analysis (Kitzes et al, 2016) and (c) risk of species extinction analysis (Sandström et al, 2017). -ecological footprint (Borucke et al, 2013), -life cycle assessment (LCA) where damage to ecosystem diversity is considered as an area of concern (Curran et al, 2010;Goedkoop et al, 2013).…”

Section: Models For Assessing Business Impacts On Biodiversitymentioning

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Detecting unsustainable pressures exerted on biodiversity by a company. Application to the food portfolio of a retailer

Wolff

Gondran²,

Brodhag³

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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SummaryCompanies are called by institutional organizations to assess their impacts on biodiversity and to take actions to achieve collectively conservation objectives. This paper presents a method to assess whether the pressures exerted by a business and its value chain on biodiversity are compatible with biodiversity conservation. The absolute environmental sustainability assessment framework is used to compare relevant life cycle assessment midpoint and endpoint indicators to the ecological budgets assigned to the company. This approach is illustrated based on the case study of a mass-market retailer with a focus on the pressures exerted by its food portfolio at the agricultural production step. The results indicate that several pressures driving biodiversity loss are not sustainable. The study also highlights the prominent weight of a few product categories in the ecological burden. These findings have implications for mass-market retailers as well as their food value chains and open research perspectives to make such an approach fully operational.

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Section: Models For Assessing Business Impacts On Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Detecting unsustainable pressures exerted on biodiversity by a company. Application to the food portfolio of a retailer

Wolff

Gondran²,

Brodhag³

2017

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Global multi-regional input-output (MRIO) models provide a comprehensive mapping of the global supply chain network in monetary units and show how consumer demand in one country is linked to biodiversity loss in another (Lenzen et al 2012, Kitzes et al 2017, Moran and Kanemoto 2017, Verones et al 2017, Wilting et al 2017. However, the commodity details of MRIOs are too low to allow studying footprints of specific products such as different oil crops and vegetable oils (Wiedmann et al 2011).…”

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A novel maximum entropy approach to hybrid monetary-physical supply-chain modelling and its application to biodiversity impacts of palm oil embodied in consumption

Többen

Wiebe

Verones

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The environmental and social consequences of clearing tropical forests for palm oil and soybean monoculture have been analyzed in a number of studies and are widely recognized. Some initiatives and studies have examined portions of the supply chain from the perspective of individual companies and stages in the supply chain. We complement this work by providing a consistent, detailed, global trade-linked analysis of the four major vegetable oils, connecting land use for production and its biodiversity impact, through global supply chains, to final consumers. To this end, we develop a global model by fully integrating FAO's physical supply-utilization accounts into the environmentally extended multiregional input-output model EXIOBASE. Global supply chains are linked with the life-cycle impact assessment model LC-Impact to assess biodiversity impact of land use via global maps of oil crop cultivation. For the period 2000-2010, we find significant substitution of domestically produced oils with relatively low biodiversity impacts with Indonesian palm oil and Brazilian soybean oil for the major consuming countries, China, Europe and the US. Whereas soybean oil remains the vegetable oil with the largest impact on biodiversity at a global scale, biodiversity footprints of palm oil have grown substantially larger in the period 2000-2010, driven by demand from Europe and China. Our results suggest that demand-side policies focused on specific oils, such as palm oil, might lead to switching oils and unintended shifts of environmental impacts.

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“…International trade has indeed been shown to cause negative impacts on biodiversity among lowincome exporting countries (Lenzen et al 2012). Increasing number of studies have further evaluated the strong implications of international trade on biodiversity (Chaudhary and Kastner 2016, Kitzes et al 2016, Nishijima et al 2016, Chaudhary et al 2017, Moran and Kanemoto 2017. Similarly, international trade can generate biodiversity impacts through the introduction of harmful nonindigenous species (Hulme 2009), sometimes even directly associated to the act of trading such as invasive species transported through ship ballast water (Drake and Lodge 2004).…”

Section: Telecoupling Through Trade In Global Marketsmentioning

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Biodiversity conservation in a telecoupled world

Carrasco¹,

Chan²,

McGrath³

et al. 2017

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ABSTRACT. The environmental and socioeconomic interactions between distant regions of the world ("telecoupling") are dramatically increasing. Telecoupling brings about new challenges and opportunities to biodiversity conservation that are of a larger magnitude and of a faster pace than ever observed before. Our understanding of the dynamics and leverage points of this telecoupled world is however limited. It is thus important to take stock of what we know and what we still need to know to formulate effective biodiversity conservation policies with telecoupling increasing. We identify the challenges and opportunities for biodiversity conservation brought about by the world's telecoupling in international trade and information by new technologies. Challenges are presented by the high demands for agricultural and wildlife products by high-income and emerging economies, putting pressure on land protection, management and incentive-based conservation interventions. Opportunities are brought about by the strength of telecoupled information flows that can generate strong pressure on multinationals and governments to adopt sustainable practices. Examples of these opportunities are zero-deforestation pledges and the increase in the number of certification schemes in key agricultural commodities. Conservation practitioners need to adopt a global perspective on telecoupling and focus on the new conservation opportunities represented by shaping the social norms of affluent consumers in emerging and high-income economies.

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Consumption‐Based Conservation Targeting: Linking Biodiversity Loss to Upstream Demand through a Global Wildlife Footprint

Cited by 45 publications

References 40 publications

Detecting unsustainable pressures exerted on biodiversity by a company. Application to the food portfolio of a retailer

Detecting unsustainable pressures exerted on biodiversity by a company. Application to the food portfolio of a retailer

A novel maximum entropy approach to hybrid monetary-physical supply-chain modelling and its application to biodiversity impacts of palm oil embodied in consumption

Biodiversity conservation in a telecoupled world

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