Future changes in consumption: The income effect on greenhouse gas emissions

Bjelle, Eivind Lekve; Wiebe, Kirsten S.; Többen, Johannes; Tisserant, Alexandre; Ivanova, Diana; Vita, Gibran; Wood, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105114

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“…Household consumption patterns and level of economic progress will largely determine the GHG emissions from the future food system. Therefore, lifestyle changes, including changes in food habits, are crucial to complement low-emissions development (Bjelle et al 2021).…”

Section: Reduce Emissions From Overall Food Systemmentioning

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Contribution of Agriculture to Climate Change and Low-Emission Agricultural Development in Asia and the Pacific

Aryal¹

2022

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The agriculture sector in Asia and the Pacific region contributes massively to climate change, as the region has the largest share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. The region is the largest producer of rice, a major source of methane emissions. Further, to achieve food security for the increasing population, there has been a massive increase in the use of synthetic fertilizer and energy in agricultural production in the region over the last few decades. This has led to an enormous rise in nitrous oxide (N2O; mostly from fertilizer-N use) and carbon dioxide (mostly from energy use for irrigation) emissions from agriculture. Besides this, a substantial increase in livestock production for meat and dairy products has increased methane emissions, along with other environmental problems. In this context, this study conducts a systematic review of strategies that can reduce emissions from the agriculture sector using a multidimensional approach, looking at supply-side, demand-side, and cross-cutting measures. The review found that though there are huge potentials to reduce GHG emissions from agriculture, significant challenges exist in monitoring and verification of GHG emissions from supply-side measures, shifting to sustainable consumption behavior with regard to food consumption and use, and the design and implementation of regulatory and incentive mechanisms. On the supply side, policies should focus on the upscaling of climate-smart agriculture primarily through expanding knowledge and improving input use efficiency in agriculture, while on the demand side, there is a need to launch a drive to reduce food loss and waste and also to move towards sustainable consumption. Therefore, appropriate integration of policies at multiple levels, as well as application of multiple measures simultaneously, can increase mitigation potential as desired by the Paris Agreement and also help to achieve several of the United Nations’ SDGs.

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Section: Reduce Emissions From Overall Food Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contribution of Agriculture to Climate Change and Low-Emission Agricultural Development in Asia and the Pacific

Aryal¹

2022

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“…Numerous studies show that the GHG intensity of consumption declines as income levels rise, implying that the income elasticity of emissions falls below 1 (Rao and Min 2018). According to (Oswald, Owen, and Steinberger 2020;Bjelle et al 2021) and (Pothen and Tovar Reaños 2018), goods and services with a higher energy intensity tend to have higher consumption inequality as well as higher income elasticities, assuming constant total expenditures. Therefore, the redistribution of income to a lower concentration would increase the aggregated energy consumption intensity.…”

Section: Resource and Emission Effects Of Income Distributionmentioning

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Four economic principles of just sustainability transition

Dombi

Fahid

Harazin

et al. 2022

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Equitable income distribution is desirable for moral, economic, and social reasons. Recent studies, however, indicate that improved income allocation will result in increased environmental impacts due to our socio-economic system's current settings. Therefore, we explored the key aspects of a system that can more evenly reallocate natural and economic resources while reducing negative environmental impacts. We found that the capital is extremely important as a means of material flows and stocks. Thus, effective policy interventions should target mechanisms at this very market. Based on a comprehensive literature review and statistical analyses at various levels, we proposed a four-step policy framework that includes reducing and targeted savings, reshaping governments' spatial decisions and role in the housing market, and changing the rates of depreciation in income tax legislation used globally. Author summary Over the last decade, there has been an increasing emphasis on economic inequality in the sustainability discourse. Inequality in wealth and earnings evokes social tensions and keeps holding back the efforts towards a just and sustainable society. However, recent studies show, that we cannot reach an aim of a more equal society and decreased pollution and natural resource use in the same time. We discovered that the capital market is extremely important with regard to the connections between the society and its effect on Nature. As a result, a fundamental intervention should attempt to considerably reshape this laxer of the economy in order to address the various problems of our ecological crisis and the inequality issue that it entails. However, a disruption in the capital market would cause substantial social damage, such as shortage on the housing market or through the discontinuation of innovations. The aim, then, is to identify selective yet market-oriented regulatory instruments. Our findings propose a four-step policy framework which fits the requirements above.

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“…Los países de ingresos bajos inducen un crecimiento de las emisiones de GEI mayor al de los países con ingresos esto se debe a que, según Baležentis et al (2020), en los países pobres no pueden pagar o acceder a productos ecológicos o electricidad renovable, además de que en los países ricos hay una mayor preocupación por la calidad ambiental. Adicionalmente, el ritmo de crecimiento de las variables no es igual para los dos grupos de países, y esto también determina el impacto en el medio ambiente (Bjelle et al, 2021).…”

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Efecto del consumo de energía renovable en las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en países con ingresos bajos y altos

Pérez

2021

Acta Universitaria

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Las actividades humanas están aumentando las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero (GEI) en el mundo, por lo que es necesario buscar alternativas para reducirlas. El presente trabajo tiene como objetivo determinar el efecto que tiene el uso de energías renovables y el crecimiento económico sobre las emisiones de GEI (de 1990 a 2012) en dos grupos de países, uno con ingreso per cápita bajo y otro con ingreso per cápita alto según la clasificación del Banco Mundial (BM), mediante un análisis de datos panel. Asimismo, se realizó una regresión por mínimos cuadrados ordinarios (MCO) del modelo para México y Alemania. Los resultados del análisis indican que un incremento del 1% en el consumo de energías renovables reducen las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero 0.0294% en el grupo de países con ingresos altos y 0.0171% en el grupo de países con ingresos bajos. Además, cuando aumenta el 1% en el ingreso per cápita, aumentan las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en 3.5935% en los países con ingresos altos y 11.6974% en los países con ingreso bajos. De la misma manera, con el incremento del 1% en el consumo de energía renovable, las emisiones de GEI se reducen en 31 219.9 kt de CO2 en México y 18 160.0 kt de CO2 en Alemania. En conclusión, el consumo de energías renovables contribuye a mejorar la calidad ambiental al reducir el consumo de otras fuentes de energías no renovables.

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Future changes in consumption: The income effect on greenhouse gas emissions

Cited by 40 publications

References 64 publications

Contribution of Agriculture to Climate Change and Low-Emission Agricultural Development in Asia and the Pacific

Contribution of Agriculture to Climate Change and Low-Emission Agricultural Development in Asia and the Pacific

Four economic principles of just sustainability transition

Efecto del consumo de energía renovable en las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en países con ingresos bajos y altos

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