Global Futures: Modelling the Global Economic Impacts of Environmental Change to Support Policy-making

Global Futures: Modelling the Global Economic Impacts of Environmental Change to Support Policy-making

Gland (Switzerland): World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), 2020.

English

105 p.

WFPELR969

In 2017, WWF initiated the ‘Global Futures’ project to enhance awareness among global political and business leaders of the risks to economic prosperity of global environmental degradation, and to help catalyse action by making the economic case for reversing these trends. The study also foresees global price hikes over the next 30 years for key commodities, which could lead to a rise in food prices for consumers globally, with implications for food security in many regions. In contrast, under a scenario in which land use is carefully managed to avoid further loss of areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services, which the study terms the ‘Global Conservation’ scenario, economic outcomes would be dramatically better, with global GDP rising by $490 billion per year above the business-as-usual calculation.

Electronic ed.

ELR 969

English

MON-017657