So it caught my eye recently when a team of French scientists published a paper on the practicality of putting a carbon tax on beef as a tool for meeting European Union climate change targets. A tax based on carbon emissions could increase the price of beef by up to 41 percent in supermarkets. CO 2 emissions per 100 grams Price increase after carbon tax +21% +41% Beef 1.6k grams Max. Oil, gas and coal had to play along, for instance, when the Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency instituted mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. Agriculture, including cattle raising, is our third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, after the energy and industrial sectors.

Source: New York Times March 17, 2018 18:22 UTC