Decarbonizing the food and beverages industry: A critical and systematic review of developments, sociotechnical systems and policy options

RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

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Review

Sovacool, Benjamin K.^1,2  Bazilian, Morgan³  Griffiths, Steve⁴  Kim, Jinsoo⁵  Foley, Aoife^6,7  Rooney, David⁸ 

[1] Univ Sussex, Sch Business, Sci Policy Res Unit SPRU, Falmer BN1 9SL, E Sussex, England

[2] Aarhus Univ, Dept Business Dev & Technol, Ctr Energy Technol, Aarhus, Denmark

[3] Colorado Sch Mines, Golden, CO 80401 USA

[4] Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates

[5] Hanyang Univ, Dept Earth Resources & Environm Engn, Seoul, South Korea

[6] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Mech & Aerosp Engn, Belfast BT9 5AH, Antrim, North Ireland

[7] Univ Dublin, Trinity Coll Dublin, Civil Struct & Environm Engn, Dublin, Ireland

[8] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Chem & Chem Engn, Belfast BT9 5AG, Antrim, North Ireland

关键词: Climate change;    Climate mitigation;    Food and drinks;    Industrial decarbonization;    Net-zero;    Energy policy;    Food processing;    Food manufacturing;    Food systems;    Sustainability transitions;    Innovation;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.rser.2021.110856

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

From farm to fork, food and beverage consumption can have significant negative impacts on energy consumption, water consumption, climate change, and other environmental subsystems. This paper presents a comprehensive, critical and systematic review of more than 350,000 sources of evidence, and a short list of 701 studies, on the topic of greenhouse gas emissions from the food and beverage industry. Utilizing a sociotechnical lens that examines food supply and agriculture, manufacturing, retail and distribution, and consumption and use, the review identifies the most carbon-intensive processes in the industry, as well as the corresponding energy and carbon ?footprints?. It discusses multiple current and emerging options and practices for decarbonization, including 78 potentially transformative technologies. It examines the benefits to sector decarbonization?including energy and carbon savings, cost savings, and other co-benefits related to sustainability or health?as well as barriers across financial and economic, institutional and managerial, and behavioral and consumer dimensions. It lastly discusses how financing, business models, and policy can be harnessed to help overcome these barriers, and identifies a set of research gaps.

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