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Virtual water and pollution impacts should be factored into the price of imported products.
| Related Megatrends: Natural resources; Climate and environment; Geopower
Multilateral cooperation is indispensable to address longer-term global challenges for meeting the SDGs – including growing consumerism, mitigating and coping with climate change and environmental degradation.
| Related Megatrends: Geopower; Natural resources; Climate and environment
Advancements towards the SDGs and national policies for recycling and consumption behaviour should be considered in trading, funding and other international negotiations with countries outside the EU.
| Related Megatrends: Geopower; Natural resources; Climate and environment
Enforcement of international trade and environmental regulations should increase.
| Related Megatrends: Geopower; Natural resources;Climate and environment

Originally Published \| Last Updated	27 Sep 2018 \| 17 Sep 2019
Knowledge service \| Metadata	Foresight \| The Megatrends Hub \| Growing consumerism
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