Socioeconomic Effects of Reducing Household Carbon Footprints Through Meat Consumption Taxes

Chalmers, Neil; Revoredo‐Giha, Cesar; Shackley, Simon

doi:10.1080/10454446.2015.1048024

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“…Hagmann et al (2019) recently suggest that taxes and subsidies could be the most effective policies for reducing carbon emissions. Research indicates that meat carbon consumption taxes have the potential to reduce household demand for meat products, with greenhouse gas emission reduction estimates in the range of 10.5% (in Scotland; Chalmers et al, 2016) to 12% (for a tax on meat and dairy in Sweden; Säll and Gren, 2015). Nordhaus (2001) also suggested that policymakers should consider harmonized environmental taxes on carbon as powerful tools for coordinating policies and slowing climate change.…”

Section: Promoting Esfc Through Harnessing Other Desirable Outcomesmentioning

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Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

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The challenge of convincing people to change their eating habits toward more environmentally sustainable food consumption (ESFC) patterns is becoming increasingly pressing. Food preferences, choices and eating habits are notoriously hard to change as they are a central aspect of people's lifestyles and their socio-cultural environment. Many people already hold positive attitudes toward sustainable food, but the notable gap between favorable attitudes and actual purchase and consumption of more sustainable food products remains to be bridged. The current work aims to (1) present a comprehensive theoretical framework for future research on ESFC, and (2) highlight behavioral solutions for environmental challenges in the food domain from an interdisciplinary perspective. First, starting from the premise that food consumption is deliberately or unintentionally directed at attaining goals, a goal-directed framework for understanding and influencing ESFC is built. To engage in goal-directed behavior, people typically go through a series of sequential steps. The proposed theoretical framework makes explicit the sequential steps or hurdles that need to be taken for consumers to engage in ESFC. Consumers need to positively value the environment, discern a discrepancy between the desired versus the actual state of the environment, opt for action to reduce the experienced discrepancy, intend to engage in behavior that is expected to bring them closer to the desired end state, and act in accordance with their intention. Second, a critical review of the literature on mechanisms that underlie and explain ESFC (or the lack thereof) in high-income countries is presented and integrated into the goal-directed framework. This contribution thus combines a topdown conceptualization with a bottom-up literature review; it identifies and discusses factors that might hold people back from ESFC and interventions that might promote ESFC; and it reveals knowledge gaps as well as insights on how to encourage

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Section: Promoting Esfc Through Harnessing Other Desirable Outcomesmentioning

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Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

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“…The propositions of introducing market instruments such as subsidies for sustainable and organic foods, as well as the taxation of meat and dairy products, are also increasingly being discussed. Although such tools are rather sound (Chloupkova, Tinggaard Svendsen, Zdechovsky, 2018), it should be verified in advance whether less expensive alternative plant products are available (Wijesinha-Bettoni, Latu, Osornprasop, Kubuabola, 2019) and how society is prepared for introducing such far-reaching interventions in food consumption (Chalmers, Revoredo-Giha, Shackley, 2016) and what effect they will bring (Revell, 2015).…”

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The Relationship Between Consumer Behaviour, Attitudes and Acceptance of Public Policy Tools Advancing Sustainable Food Consumption

Wielicka-Regulska

2020

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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Research background: The great importance of food consumption for the sustainability of food systems means that active public policy in this area can have a lot of positive effects. Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to present the challenges facing the agri-food sector and to study consumer attitudes towards seasonal and organic food, local food, urban agriculture, food waste and meat consumption, carbon footprints and how these attitudes relate to the acceptance of public policy tools (a tax on junk food, a green public procurement, a deposit on plastic bottles, a tax-free donation of food to public benefit organisations, a fee for wasted food for large retailers) that could transform food distribution and consumption. Research methodology: cardinality tables and interdependence analysis using Pearson’s linear correlation coefficient Results: The study revealed that most respondents buy seasonal food when possible and limit meat consumption to some extent. They are rarely influenced by the impact of food on the climate. Most people are in favour of offering dishes based on local food in public institutions with catering (hospitals, schools, prisons, etc.). Most respondents were negative about gardening for food production. Involvement in local food was associated with a higher acceptance for green public procurement and higher VAT on junk food. Novelty: Both the range of considered policy instruments and the analysis of their acceptance in the context of selected behaviours and attitudes have not been previously studied and make up a new area of inquiry essential in the debate on sustainable food consumption.

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“…The situation of trading down with regards to pulses and legumes could not be studied, as the groups were not available from the Revoredo-Giha et al [48] study. Please also see [49][50][51] for additional discussion and modelling of similar topics.…”

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Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework

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The impact of beef consumption on sustainability is a complex and evolving area, as sustainability covers many areas from human nutrient adequacy to ecosystem stability. Three sustainability assessment frameworks have been created to help policy makers unpack the complexities of sustainable food systems and healthy sustainable dietary change. However, none of these frameworks have yet to be applied to a case study or individual policy issue. This paper uses a hybrid version of the sustainability assessment frameworks to investigate the impact of reducing beef consumption (with a concurrent increase in consumption of plant-based foods, with a focus on legumes) on sustainability at a UK level. The aim of this paper is to understand the applicability of these overarching frameworks at the scale of an individual policy. Such an assessment is important, as this application of previously high-level frameworks to individual policies makes it possible to summarise, at a glance, the various co-benefits and trade-offs associated with a given policy, which may be of particular value in terms of stakeholder decision-making. We find that many of the proposed metrics found within the sustainability assessment frameworks are difficult to implement at an individual issue level; however, overall they show that a reduction in beef consumption and an increase in consumption of general plant-based foods, with a focus around legumes production, would be expected to be strongly beneficial in five of the eight overarching measures which were assessed.

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Socioeconomic Effects of Reducing Household Carbon Footprints Through Meat Consumption Taxes

Cited by 16 publications

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Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research Agenda From a Goal-Directed Perspective

The Relationship Between Consumer Behaviour, Attitudes and Acceptance of Public Policy Tools Advancing Sustainable Food Consumption

Impacts of Reducing UK Beef Consumption Using a Revised Sustainable Diets Framework

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