The University of Sydney, ISA, School of Physics, NSW, 2006, Australia; The University of Sydney, Discipline of Accounting, Sydney Business School, NSW, 2006, Australia.
UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), Paris Office, France.
J Environ Manage. 2021 Oct 1;295:113037. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113037. Epub 2021 Jun 30.
Successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires world countries to account for actions that inadvertently generate negative impacts on other countries. These actions/effects are called 'spillovers', and can hinder a country's SDG progress. In this work, we analyse negative social spillover effects, focussing specifically on the occupational health and safety aspects of workers in textile supply chains. We select two indicators: fatal accidents and non-fatal accidents that take place in global supply chains for satisfying consumption of textile products (such as clothing, leather products) by European Union (EU) countries. Specifically, we scan global supply chains originating in countries outside of EU for meeting the demands of its citizens. To this end, we employ a well-established technique of multi-regional input-output analysis, featuring information on 15,000 sectors for 189 countries, to scan international supply chain routes that are linked to consumption of textile products by EU countries. Our findings suggest that Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Belgium and Portugal are collectively responsible for about 80% of both fatal- and non-fatal accidents that are attributed to the EU's consumption-based footprint. These findings not only call for a need for coherent SDG policies that consider spillover effects, but also the need for these effects to be included in EU's strategic instruments and policy-related tools.
成功实施可持续发展目标（SDGs）需要世界各国考虑到那些无意中对其他国家产生负面影响的行动。这些行动/效应被称为“溢出效应”，可能会阻碍一个国家的 SDG 进展。在这项工作中，我们分析了负面的社会溢出效应，特别关注纺织供应链工人的职业健康和安全方面。我们选择了两个指标：发生在全球供应链中的致命事故和非致命事故，以满足欧盟（EU）国家对纺织产品（如服装、皮革制品）的消费需求。具体来说，我们扫描欧盟以外国家的全球供应链，以满足其公民的需求。为此，我们采用了一种成熟的多区域投入产出分析技术，该技术涵盖了 189 个国家的 15000 个部门的信息，以扫描与欧盟国家消费相关的国际供应链路线。我们的研究结果表明，意大利、德国、法国、西班牙、波兰、比利时和葡萄牙共同承担了约 80%的与欧盟消费足迹相关的致命和非致命事故。这些发现不仅呼吁需要制定考虑到溢出效应的一致的 SDG 政策，还需要将这些效应纳入欧盟的战略工具和政策相关工具中。
