To the best of my recollection, the only paper in our dataset that provides a cost-benefit estimation is Jalil et al. (2023)
Calculations indicate a high return on investment even under conservative assumptions (~US$14 per metric ton CO2eq). Our findings show that informational interventions can be cost effective and generate long-lasting shifts towards more sustainable food options.
There’s also a red/processed meat study—Emmons et al. (2005) --- that does some cost-effectiveness analyses, but it’s almost 20 years old and its reporting is really sparse: changes to the eating environment “were not reported in detail, precluding more detailed analyses of this intervention.” So I’d stick with Jalil et al. to get a sense of ballpark estimates.
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To the best of my recollection, the only paper in our dataset that provides a cost-benefit estimation is Jalil et al. (2023)
There’s also a red/processed meat study—Emmons et al. (2005) --- that does some cost-effectiveness analyses, but it’s almost 20 years old and its reporting is really sparse: changes to the eating environment “were not reported in detail, precluding more detailed analyses of this intervention.” So I’d stick with Jalil et al. to get a sense of ballpark estimates.