Here’s How a Sugar Tax Tackles Health and Carbon Emissions in Single Blow

Takeaways:

• Researchers have found that diverting EU sugar cropland to other uses can yield significant carbon reductions in Brazil.
• They’ve proposed that a tax on sugar consumption could divert 54 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
• The reduction would be attributable to the fact that Brazil’s sugar farms could be converted to ethanol.

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