The distributional and nutritional impacts and mitigation potential of emission-based food taxes in the UK
The distributional and nutritional impacts and mitigation potential of emission-based food taxes in the UK
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DOI：
10.1007/s10584-016-1673-6
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发表时间：
2016-07-01
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4.8
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Scarborough, Peter
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作者：
Kehlbacher, Ariane;Tiffin, Richard;Scarborough, Peter
农业和粮食生产占温室气体排放的很大一部分。以排放为基础的食品税已被提议作为减少食品相关排放的一种选择。本研究介绍了一种在家庭层面上衡量基于排放的食品税影响的方法，该方法涉及使用数据增强来说明数据记录购买而不是消费的事实。该方法用于确定基于排放的食品税在英国社会经济阶层的分配和营养影响。我们发现，对所有食品征收2.841英镑/吨二氧化碳当量的税将使与食品相关的排放量减少6.3%，对高于平均排放水平的食品征税将使排放量减少4.3%。税收负担不成比例地落在最低社会经济阶层的家庭身上，因为他们倾向于将更大比例的食品支出用于排放密集型食品，因为他们购买更便宜的产品，因此经历了相对较大的价格上涨。
Agriculture and food production are responsible for a substantial proportion of greenhouse gas emissions. An emission based food tax has been proposed as one option to reduce food related emissions. This study introduces a method to measure the impacts of emission based food taxes at a household level which involves the use of data augmentation to account for the fact that the data record purchases and not consumption. The method is applied to determine the distributional and nutritional impacts of an emission based food tax across socio-economic classes in the UK. We find that a tax of A 2.841 pound/tCO2e on all foods would reduce food related emissions by 6.3 % and a tax on foods with above average levels of emissions would reduce emissions by 4.3 %. The tax burden falls disproportionately on households in the lowest socio-economic class because they tend to spend a larger proportion of their food expenditure on emission intensive foods and because they buy cheaper products and therefore experience relatively larger price increases.