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Carbon prices, climate change mitigation & food security: how to avoid trade-offs? [1]

Carbon price policies deliver cost-efficient mitigation across sectors, but can result in tradeoffs with food security and other sustainable development goals. Scenarios for a 1.5 °C world based on carbon prices could increase the undernourished population by 80 - 300 million in 2050. Applying a uniform carbon price across geographic regions and economic sectors has inequitable effects on countries’ agricultural competitiveness and food availability. Under higher carbon prices, regions with poor productivity – and consequently higher GHG emissions per unit of output – would experience increased agricultural commodity prices.

Publication Date: 
03/10/2017
Stefan Frank [2], Petr Havlík [3], Hugo Valin [4], Eva Wollenberg [5], Tomoko Hasegawa [6], Michael Obersteiner [7]
CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change [8], Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) [9]
Tags:
Climate Mitigation [10], Agriculture India [11], Food Security [12], Climate Change [13], Green House Gases [14], Carbon Tax [15]

Technology Partners: MimirTech

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/stefan-frank
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/petr-havl%C3%ADk
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/hugo-valin
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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/tomoko-hasegawa
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/michael-obersteiner
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/cgiar-research-program-climate-change
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[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-tax