Greenhouse Gas Taxes on Meat Products
A Legal Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4610145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cordelia Christiane Bähr (University of Zurich, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-179 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s2047102515000011 |
| OpenAlex | W2139097978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 25 |
Meat production and the transport sector contribute almost equally to global warming. However, unlike the transport sector, in terms of climate change policies meat production is relatively unregulated. Many scientists have called for a meat tax as a means of reducing consumption but governments and politicians have not responded. Has the law been an obstacle to the acceptance of a meat tax? To address that question, this article analyzes three examples of European Union (EU) taxes that could be imposed on the consumption of domestic and imported meat, and examines them in relation to the international climate change regime, human rights law, and the legal regimes of the World Trade Organization and the EU. It shows that, if carefully designed, an EU meat tax is consistent with these bodies of law. To address adequately the industrial sectors that give rise to global warming, governments will need to overcome the taboo relating to the concept of a meat tax
Business · Climate change · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Global warming · International trade · Natural resource economics · Obstacle · Political science · Climate Change Policy and Economics · International Environmental Law and Policies · Law · Ecology
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,73 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |