Monetary Health Co-Benefits and GHG Emissions Reduction Benefits: Contribution from Private On-the-Road Transport

Meat consumption reduction in Italian regions: Health co-benefits and decreases in GHG emissions

INTRODUCTION Animal agriculture has exponentially grown in recent decades in response to the rise in global demand for meat, even in countries like Italy that traditionally eat a Mediterranean, plant-based diet. Globalization related dietary changes are contributing to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases and to the global climate crisis, and are associated with huge carbon and water footp...

Fasting: Benefits and probable health harmfulness from the Islamic perspective

Fasting is a form of Islamic worship to approach God.  There is a direct relationship between fasting, abstaining from eating and drinking, and an individual’s health as well as his ill-health. Therefore, it is of utmost importance in the Islamic perspective to weigh the spiritual benefits achieved through fasting against its probable harmfulness to an individual’s health. Regarding fasting, th...

GHG reduction measures for the Road Freight Transport sector

The Climate Co-benefits of Obesity Reduction

Rising obesity rates may contribute to greenhouse gas emissions both directly through increased food production and indirectly through higher passenger weights and increasingly sedentary lifestyles. Using panel data for the fifty US states over the period 1997 to 2011 we examine the relationship between the obesity rate and carbon dioxide emissions from energy use. Results indicate a positive a...

REDUCING TRANSPORT GHG EMISSIONS Opportunities and Costs