Sammanfattning

Livestock cause around 10% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the European Union. Despite the large quantities, no economic policy is in place to reduce emissions from the sector. In this paper, we introduce consumption taxes on animal products in the European Union to reduce GHG emissions. Impacts are simulated using the CAPRI model, which was created to analyze the impacts of agricultural policy reforms within the EU. Tax levels of 16, 60 and 290 Euro per ton of GHG emissions are used in the estimations.Our results show that consumption taxes have small mitigation effects, up to 4.9% of total agricultural emissions from the EU-27, mainly due to inelastic demand. The main source of reductions is beef and France is the country where most reductions would take place, given high levels of production and consumption in the country, combined with a large demand elasticity of beef.

Nyckelord

Climate change; agricultural greenhouse gas emissions; emission leakage; environmental taxes; mathematical modelling

Publicerad i

Climate Change Economics
2018, Volym: 9, nummer: 4, artikelnummer: 1850009
Utgivare: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD

SLU författare

• Jansson, Torbjörn

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Säll, Sarah

  • Institutionen för ekonomi, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen

SDG13 Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser
SDG2 Avskaffa hunger, uppnå tryggad livsmedelsförsörjning och förbättrad nutrition samt främja ett hållbart jordbruk
SDG12 Säkerställa hållbara konsumtions- och produktionsmönster


UKÄ forskningsämne

Nationalekonomi


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007818500094

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