Regional Analysis of Hidden Costs of the Food System Economic

DISCLAIMER The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author/s and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Food System Economics Commission, including its Commissioners, Co-Chairs and Principals, the Quadrature Climate Foundation, the World Resources Institute (WRI) or the Norwegian Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI). [...] The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Oxford, the Food System Economic Commission, the Norwegian Climate and Forest Initiative (NICFI) and the World Resources Institute (WRI). [...] The magnitude and composition of the avoided hidden costs changes over the period 2020 to 2050 as the measures in FST are implemented and responded to, but averaged the avoided hidden costs amount to 216 billion USD PPP per year (Figure 2S bottom panel and Figure 3S middle panel). [...] Figure 1S bottom panel showed the trajectory of the mean and the 2.5-th and 97.5-th percentile statistics of the distributions of Brazil annual hidden cost reduction under FST. [...] Left panel shows the distribution of environmental hidden cost in 2020, 2030 and 2050 under the baseline scenario CT, which transitions from a right skew and a long-tail of risk of higher hidden costs to a left-skew toward opportunity for higher benefits in 2050 under FST in the middle panel.