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Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance

Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance. Measuring resource security with the Ecological Footprint. Services from the biosphere. Human Activities. Resource Provision. Waste Absorption. Sustainable Levels of Activity. Resource Extraction. Resource

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Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance

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  1. Perspectives on Sustainability: Renewable Resources, Trade, and WTO Governance Measuring resource security with the Ecological Footprint

  2. Services from the biosphere Human Activities Resource Provision Waste Absorption

  3. Sustainable Levels of Activity Resource Extraction Resource Regeneration r r ≤ Ecological Footprint Biocapacity Waste Production Waste Absorption r r

  4. Impacts of Unsustainability • Happens local to production • Directly contributes to reduced ability to produce resources Resource degradation Waste accumulation (and corresponding impacts)

  5. Resource Flows Production Consumption Economic Activity } { Country X Country X Country Y Country Y Country Z Country Z Imports Exports

  6. Resource Security For each nation, it is a function of: Production Sustainability Imports Domestic Production Domestic Supply Foreign Production Foreign Supply

  7. Global Footprint Network Offer multiple products, including: Traditional Extended National Footprint Accounts Consumption Activity Footprints Commodity Footprint Intensities Sector-level Output Footprints Embodied Biocapacity in Trade

  8. Resource Security Resource insecure Resource secure

  9. Conclusions • Assessments of resource security require examination of both domestic policies and trade policies • Global Footprint Network offers quantified data on exposure to biological resource degradation • Work is underway to provide tools with which to assess policy impacts on resource security Partnership between resource accountants and trade experts to provide multilateral policy solutions to resource security

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