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Meat taxes and other livestock emissions regulations could be feasible, acceptable and effective, argue climate researchers

2023-10-02
(Press-News.org) Meat taxes and other livestock emissions regulations could be feasible, acceptable and effective, argue climate researchers.

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000291

Article Title: High ‘steaks’: Building support for reducing agricultural emissions

Author Countries: Germany, UK

Funding: This work was financially supported by the Robert Bosch foundation (Junior Professorship grant to LM) The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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[Press-News.org] Meat taxes and other livestock emissions regulations could be feasible, acceptable and effective, argue climate researchers