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A Consultation on the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption Indicator 2025

Abstract

The Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption (GEIC) indicator provides data on the biodiversity loss, water use, and deforestation associated with a country or territory’s consumption. This report gives results on a consultation of the indicator, looking to assess how the indicator is being used, how user-friendly the dashboard is, how the outputs are being interpreted, and the value the indicator is perceived as having.

The consultation consisted of two parts:

  • An online survey looking at who was using the indicator and how, gauging its perceived value, and providing an opportunity for user feedback.
  • One-on-one usability testing sessions, run through an online call, assessing the usability, accessibility and interpretability of the dashboard.

Overall, the survey provided evidence that users find the GEIC indicator to have high value. Examples of its use were given across a wide range of areas. The relatively low proportion of survey respondents who had heard of the indicator before completing the survey (and the high proportion of these who said they would be interested in using it in future) suggests that general awareness about the tool remains low and that further communication activities would be beneficial.

Results from the usability testing show that the dashboard is largely accessible, user-friendly and being correctly interpreted, but with some key points for improvement identified, particularly related to the process around switching between different data models to access data from a wider range of countries.

This report may not be fully accessible for all users. If you need a copy in a different or more accessible format, please contact Communications@jncc.gov.uk.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2025·07·01

Citation
Workman, E. & Harris, M. 2025. A consultation on the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption indicator. JNCC Report 797. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
This report was produced by JNCC for Defra through the Global Environmental Impacts of Consumption indicator project.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2025·08·01

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

Temporal extent 2020·12·31 2024·12·31

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