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Do carbon footprint labels promote climatarian diets? Evidence from a large-scale field experiment | Elisabeth Gsottbauer

We estimate the causal effect of carbon footprint labels on individual food choices and quantify potential carbon emission reductions, using data from a large-scale field experiment at five university cafeterias with over 80,000 individual meal choices. Read more

15 Dec '22

Time for finance to turn down the heat

Commentary

by Nick Robins

on 26 February, 2020

As the financial system gears up for the COP26 UN climate summit in November, leaders of financial institutions will need to know the answer to two questions: what is your temperature score and how will you bring it down to 1.5°C as soon as possible? Nick Robins looks at the progress being made. Read more

Income inequality and carbon consumption: evidence from environmental Engel curves

Working paper

by Lutz Sager

on 17 November, 2017

This paper analyses the relationship between the distribution of income and the carbon dioxide content of household consumption in the US, describing a potential 'equity-pollution dilemma' and proposing a method to quantify it. Read more

Rich US households produce more CO2 each year from driving than the entire carbon footprint of poor households over 8 months

Press release on 17 November, 2017

Analysis by researcher Lutz Sager puts a ‘carbon dioxide cost’ on household consumption by adding up the emissions that can be attributed to the goods, services and energy that households in the United States buy in a year and compares households with different incomes. Sager’s results show that the 10% of households with the highest income had an average annual carbon footprint of 59.4 metric tons of carbon dioxide per household in 2009 – more than three times as much as the 10% of households with the lowest income. Read more