Does Value Chain Integration Dampen Producer Price Developments? Evidence from the European Union

Does value chain integration dampen producer price developments? Evidence from the European Union

World Economy ◽

10.1111/twec.12993 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 89-106

Author(s):

Klaus S. Friesenbichler ◽

Agnes Kuegler ◽

Andreas Reinstaller

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Value Chain ◽

The European Union ◽

Producer Price

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The Shifting Politics of Sustainable Seafood Consumerism

The Oxford Handbook of Political Consumerism ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190629038.013.16 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 330-348 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon R. Bush ◽

Cathy A. Roheim

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

European Union ◽

Value Chain ◽

The United States ◽

The European Union ◽

Political Consumerism ◽

Conventional View ◽

Sustainable Seafood ◽

Supply Mode

Seafood has emerged as a key testing ground for understanding the role of different value chain actors in driving sustainability. The conventional view, developed in the late 1990s, is that sustainable seafood is driven by the choices and practices of consumers in major importing markets, such as the United States and the European Union. This view led to the development of a range of boycott and buycott initiatives in the 2000s. Many of the buycott initiatives have been formalised into consumer-facing tools, such as certification, recommendation lists, and traceability. More recently celebrity chefs have also joined in, shaping sustainable seafood as cuisine. While these initiatives and tools initially assumed a demand-shapes-supply mode of political consumerism, they have all broadened to include multiple modes of political consumerism. The future of the sustainable seafood movement is therefore dependent on a clearer articulation of diverse modes of political consumerism.

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Growing environmental footprint of plastics driven by coal combustion

Nature Sustainability ◽

10.1038/s41893-021-00807-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Livia Cabernard ◽

Stephan Pfister ◽

Christopher Oberschelp ◽

Stefanie Hellweg

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

European Union ◽

Particulate Matter ◽

Value Chain ◽

Value Added ◽

The United States ◽

The European Union ◽

Socioeconomic Impacts ◽

Carbon Footprints ◽

Production And Consumption

AbstractResearch on the environmental impacts from the global value chain of plastics has typically focused on the disposal phase, considered most harmful to the environment and human health. However, the production of plastics is also responsible for substantial environmental, health and socioeconomic impacts. We show that the carbon and particulate-matter-related health footprint of plastics has doubled since 1995, due mainly to growth in plastics production in coal-based economies. Coal-based emissions have quadrupled since 1995, causing almost half of the plastics-related carbon and particulate-matter-related health footprint in 2015. Plastics-related carbon footprints of China’s transportation, Indonesia’s electronics industry and India’s construction sector have increased more than 50-fold since 1995. In 2015, plastics caused 4.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, 6% of global coal electricity is used for plastics production. The European Union and the United States have increasingly consumed plastics produced in coal-based economies. In 2015, 85% of the workforce required for plastics consumed by the European Union and the United States was employed abroad, but 80% of the related value added was generated domestically. As high-income regions have outsourced the energy-intensive steps of plastics production to coal-based economies, renewable energy investments throughout the plastics value chain are critical for sustainable production and consumption of plastics.

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