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Carbon pricing of food in Australia: an analysis of the health, environmental and public finance impacts

Marco Springmann, Gary Sacks, Jaithri Ananthapavan, Peter Scarborough

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health · 2018

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Summary

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the impact of integrating the price of greenhouse gas emissions into the price of food commodities on dietary and weight-related risk factors and associated disease burden in Australia, as well as on national emissions reductions and public revenues. METHODS: We used country-specific data for Australia to build a coupled modelling framework that includes economic, environmental and health analyses. Data sources included the 2011-12 Australian food and nutrition survey, meta-analysis of food-related lifecycle emissions, and price and income elasticities. Consumption-related changes in disease burden were calculated using a comparative risk assessment framework with 11 disease states and seven diet and weight-related risk factors. RESULTS: Including a price of $23 per

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1111/1753-6405.12830
Catalogue ID
BFmokjof1a-7phiuc
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