Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities

Springmann, M. et al, “Mitigation potential and global health impacts from emissions pricing of food commodities,” Nature Climate Change (2016) doi:10.1038/nclimate3155

The authors show that the global climate change mitigation potential of emissions pricing of food commodities could be substantial, and that levying greenhouse gas taxes on food commodities could, if appropriately designed, be a health-promoting climate policy in high-income countries, as well as in most low- and middle-income countries.

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