A short presentation by Clara Ma on Policy interventions to promote sustainable food consumption followed by a Q&A and discussion with the speaker.
Coffee Break Seminars are a relaxed online learning and discussion platform for our food security community that take place every Friday during term time at 2pm, UK time.
Please mail coordinator@globalfood.cam.ac.uk to register your interest in attending.
Abstract:
Behavioural interventions have been widely used to promote more sustainable diets. Recently, it has been suggested that such interventions can also improve the uptake and effectiveness of traditional economic policy interventions like taxes levied on carbon emissions and subsidies for low-carbon products. Clara will discuss an ongoing field study on the effectiveness of carbon emission labels, subsidies incentivising the purchase of low-carbon meals, and their combination in encouraging the selection of low-carbon meals in university cafeterias.
Speaker:
Clara is a PhD student and Gates Cambridge Scholar at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute. She is a research assistant at the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics and Policy at the Judge Business School. Her doctoral research evaluates environmental, technology and behavioural policies to promote sustainability transitions in the food and transportation sectors. Clara is supervised by Professor Laura Diaz Anadon and Professor Cristina Peñasco.