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DOI	10.1038/s41893-022-00934-4
	Sugar taxation for climate and sustainability goals
	King, Lewis C.; van den Bergh, Jeroen
发表日期	2022
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	899
结束页码	905
卷号	5 期号:10 页码:7
英文摘要	Recovering from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic while achieving environmental goals requires creative policy measures. This study analyses the sustainability co-benefits of reducing sugar consumption through redirecting existing sugar cropland to alternative uses via sugar taxation. Meeting environmental sustainability goals while simultaneously recovering from the health and economic crises arising from the coronavirus pandemic requires creative policy solutions. Sugar taxation presents one such policy as sugar crops are arguably the least efficient to consume from a health perspective but the most efficient for biofuel production. Here we analyse the sustainability co-benefits of reducing sugar consumption through redirecting existing sugar cropland to alternative uses. Emissions could fall 20.9-54.3 Mt CO(2)e yr(-1) if the EU were to reduce its sugar consumption in line with health guidelines and the excess Brazilian sugar cane redirected to ethanol. These savings would be around four times higher than an alternative strategy of afforesting existing EU sugar beet cropland and double those from producing sugar beet ethanol in the European Union. Achieving this through policies aimed at behavioural change, with a serious role for sugar taxation, would not only reduce the environmental impacts of biofuels but also provide health and economic benefits.
学科领域	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS记录号	WOS:000829696600002
来源期刊	NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/272816
作者单位	Autonomous University of Barcelona; ICREA; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	King, Lewis C.,van den Bergh, Jeroen. Sugar taxation for climate and sustainability goals[J],2022,5(10):7.
APA	King, Lewis C.,&van den Bergh, Jeroen.(2022).Sugar taxation for climate and sustainability goals.NATURE SUSTAINABILITY,5(10),7.
MLA	King, Lewis C.,et al."Sugar taxation for climate and sustainability goals".NATURE SUSTAINABILITY 5.10(2022):7.