Consumers' preferences for carbon labels and the underlying reasoning. A mixed methods approach in 6 European countries

Feucht, Yvonne; Zander, Katrin

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.236

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“…Yenipazarli [25] demonstrated the willingness of consumer demands, competitor behavioral principles and regulatory requirements to motivate enterprises for protecting the environment. About carbon labelling, the results of Feucht and Zander [26] showed that the launch of carbon label did increase the purchase probability of consumers, who were willing to pay a price premium of about 20% to buy green commodities.…”

Section: The Low-carbon Policy On Enterprises' Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Multi-Stakeholders’ Behavioral Strategies Considering Public Participation under Carbon Taxes and Subsidies: An Evolutionary Game Approach

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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Considering public participation in environmental management, we developed a tripartite game model among governments, manufacturers and publics under carbon taxes and subsidies to investigate whether the mutual relationship between governments and the public can urge manufacturers to adopt low-carbon technology by examining the interaction effect among the multi-stakeholders. In this study, we focus on manufactured products without significant low-carbon peculiarity. For these products, consumers have no way to identify which are from low-carbon production and which are not. The results show that governments and the public have a complementary and coordinating relationship indeed. The regulation cost of governments, the supervision reward for the public and the supervision cost of the public can all influence the behavioral strategies among the multi-stakeholders, including governments, manufacturers and the public. With the regulation cost strengthens dramatically, governments can consider increasing the supervision reward to support the public to participate in the management of manufacturers’ behaviors. Publics should also actively improve their management ability, and the low cost of public participation in supervision is an effective reflection to make up for the lack of government regulation. The implementation of carbon taxes is more advantageous in urging low-carbon manufacturing than government subsidies for low-carbon production. A complete carbon label system can reflect the low-carbon preferences of consumers to help manufacturers integrate low-carbon behavior into their operational decisions.

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Section: The Low-carbon Policy On Enterprises' Decision-makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Multi-Stakeholders’ Behavioral Strategies Considering Public Participation under Carbon Taxes and Subsidies: An Evolutionary Game Approach

Chen

2020

Sustainability

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“…A few studies have been conducted to explore consumer WTP for climate-friendly products. In some cases, a low but significant WTP for low-carbon products has been found (Koistinen et al, 2013;Feucht and Zander, 2018), but other research indicates that there is no WTP, suggesting low interest in this topic (Vanclay et al, 2011;Zhao et al, 2018). However, multi-levelling in the form of a "traffic light" color scheme has been successfully tested (Thøgersen and Nielsen, 2016).…”

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Multidimensional Labelling: Closing the Sustainability Information Gap between Producers, Consumers and Sustainability Science in the Food Sector

Kocsis

Kuslits

2019

Period. Polytech. Soc. Man. Sci.

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Product labels are designed to diminish producer-consumer information asymmetry, which represents a typical information gap.However, sustainability science, in its broadest sense, is another 'agent' for achieving sustainable development, while producer-science and consumer-science information gaps can also be identified. As a step towards closing these gaps, we propose a multidimensional form of eco-labelling in the food sector: a well-chosen system of labels that refer to the possible trade-offs known to sustainability science. The dimensions proposed in our model reflect types of negative environmental effects: the entities harmfully affected by production may be (1) other, non-human species (OTHER; 0th party), (2) other people thousands of miles away in space (FARTHER; 1st party), (3) consumers themselves in the present (HERE; 2nd party), or (4) other people later in time (LATER; 3rd party). We apply this framework to ethical labelling in the food sector.

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“…Caputo et al [108] evaluate willingness to pay values for carbon labels and food mileage indications. Consumer attention for greenhouse gas emissions related to food products has also been investigated by other scholars [109,110].…”

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confidence: 99%

Recent Contributions of Agricultural Economics Research in the Field of Sustainable Development

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Sustainable development is more often considered by media, public opinion, and politicians to be the main goal our society should attempt to pursue in the coming years. To this aim, academic researchers have made sustainability one of the main objects of their studies. This work focuses on environmental sustainability and presents a brief overview of how it is taken into consideration in the agricultural economics field by considering this topic from different perspectives and thus highlighting how this field is gradually broadening its scope to include sustainable development objectives. Our analysis shows that the path towards sustainable development is strongly correlated to the protection of the environment. Therefore, agricultural policies aimed at protecting and preserving the environment, and, more in general, innovation along the agri-food chain, together with consumer attention towards environmental issues, can play an important role in achieving this objective.

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Consumers' preferences for carbon labels and the underlying reasoning. A mixed methods approach in 6 European countries

Cited by 101 publications

References 32 publications

Analysis of Multi-Stakeholders’ Behavioral Strategies Considering Public Participation under Carbon Taxes and Subsidies: An Evolutionary Game Approach

Analysis of Multi-Stakeholders’ Behavioral Strategies Considering Public Participation under Carbon Taxes and Subsidies: An Evolutionary Game Approach

Multidimensional Labelling: Closing the Sustainability Information Gap between Producers, Consumers and Sustainability Science in the Food Sector

Recent Contributions of Agricultural Economics Research in the Field of Sustainable Development

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