The Government of South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries has just published the results of a piece of research that looks at the economic and environmental impacts of selling South Australian wine in the United Kingdom, a key market for Australian wine. The project takes a ‘value chain analysis’ approach for the ‘Oxford Landing’ wine brand, looking at 5 areas: Consumer value, Material flow, Emissions, Information flow and Relationships.

In November 2008 the Greater London Authority published a report on London's food related greenhouse gas emissions.

In "Life cycle measures of biophysical sustainability in feed production for conventional and organic salmon aquaculture in the northeast pacific" it was found that the cumulative impacts of industrial society's high material/energy throughput compromise the stability of planetary biogeochemical cycles.