Unsustainable patterns of consumption and production are root causes the triple planetary crises climate change, biodiversity loss pollution. These crises, related environmental degradation, threaten human well-being achievement SDGs. If we continue on prevailing development pathway, Earth’s finite capacity will be unable to sustain livelihoods current future generations. Transforming our relat...

The growing geographic disconnect between consumption of goods, the extraction and processing of resources, and the environmental impacts associated with production activities makes it crucial to factor global trade into sustainability assessments. Using an empirically validated environmentally extended global trade model, we examine the relationship between two key resources underpinning econo...