Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity... (opens in new tab)

Covered by 8 sources including Gizmodo, the Guardian

The top 10% of global consumers is disproportionately responsible for transgressing planetary boundaries, causing damages for which broader society bears the costs. Here we monetise the climate change, biosphere integrity, biogeochemical cycles and freshwater-use footprints of these consumers using prices of the Environmental Prices Handbook. We find annual damages owed by the global 10% to be $1.7–$5.7 trillion, equivalent to $2.3k–$7.5k per person (in $2017). This surpasses international cl...

Environmental damages of the top ten percent consumers exceed global climate and biodiversity... (opens in new tab)

Covered in 8 articles

Top 10% of Consumers Create Up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage Annually

‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds

World's highest-consuming 10% cause up to $5.7 trillion a year in environmental damage, study finds