Simon L Croft

Jun 12, 2023 | sei.org | Chris West |Jonathan Green |Simon L Croft |Toby Gardner

“Offshore impacts” are the environmental consequences of commodity production and trade in places other than where the commodities are consumed. Consideration of such impacts in policy frameworks has emerged only recently. Frameworks to monitor overseas environmental impacts are critical to mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss but remain fragmented and underused. Key barriers relate to the coherence of these frameworks and governments’ capacity to facilitate their uptake.