TY - JOUR
T1 - Effectiveness of a carbon tax to promote a climate-friendly food consumption
AU - Dogbe, Wisdom
AU - Gil, Jose Maria
N1 - Acknowledgement
This study has been financed by the EU SUSDIET project. We acknowledge the SUSDIET team for their useful comments on previous drafts of this paper. Particularly, we acknowledge the great job led by Hanna Hartikainen and Hannele Pulkkinen Hanneleat LUKE (Finland) for making available to us their estimates of CO2 equivalent emissions for food categories.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - Our current dietary habits are a major contributor to climate change because the “seed-to-table” food chain produces an immense amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Castellón et al., 2015). For instance, in Spain, the agricultural sector contributes 14% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Bourne et al., 2012). Hedenus et al. (2014) showed that emission reduction in the agro-food sector can be achieved by: (1) productivity improvements; (2) technological changes (supply-side measures); and (3) changes in consumption behaviour (demand-side measures). Supply side measures such as command-and-control regulations, cap-and-trade systems or Pigovian (corrective) taxes, have been applied extensively in the European Union (Máca et al., 2012). However, the use of command–and-control measures has been found to be economically inefficient and does not lead to optimal production, when compared to cap-and-trade measures or Pigovian taxes (Burchell and Lightfoot, 2001).
AB - Our current dietary habits are a major contributor to climate change because the “seed-to-table” food chain produces an immense amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) (Castellón et al., 2015). For instance, in Spain, the agricultural sector contributes 14% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Bourne et al., 2012). Hedenus et al. (2014) showed that emission reduction in the agro-food sector can be achieved by: (1) productivity improvements; (2) technological changes (supply-side measures); and (3) changes in consumption behaviour (demand-side measures). Supply side measures such as command-and-control regulations, cap-and-trade systems or Pigovian (corrective) taxes, have been applied extensively in the European Union (Máca et al., 2012). However, the use of command–and-control measures has been found to be economically inefficient and does not lead to optimal production, when compared to cap-and-trade measures or Pigovian taxes (Burchell and Lightfoot, 2001).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.08.003
DO - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.08.003
M3 - Article
VL - 79
SP - 235
EP - 246
JO - Food Policy
JF - Food Policy
SN - 0306-9192
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