This report looks at the potential impact on poor countries of large-scale efforts to reduce emissions from consumption in rich countries. It finds that if a set of low-GHG consumption strategies currently proposed in the UK were widely adopted in rich countries, it could reduce consumption-related emissions by over ten percent, but it would also reduce Least Developed Countries’ GDPs by five percent because of the decreased revenue from international trade. Given the importance of reducing consumption in rich countries, the authors argue for embedding sustainable-development goals into climate strategies. This might mean trying to source goods from countries that are both particularly poor, and have particularly low-emissions production, helping poor countries reduce their manufacturing emissions, or helping them produce value-added and/or more durable goods e.g., exporting one shirt brings the revenue they now earn from selling three or four.














