Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910793910103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Paris : , : OECD Publishing, , [2019]; ©2019
• ISBN: 92-64-56172-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (136 pages)
• Disciplina: 363.738746
• Soggetti: Climate change mitigation; Sustainable agriculture; Agriculture - Environmental aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from content provider.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro --Foreword --Acknowledgements --Abbreviations --Executive Summary --1 Potential for mitigation policies in agriculture: Summary insights --The need to reduce agricultural emissions --Technical and economic potential for supply-side mitigation in agriculture --The mitigation potential of demand-side waste reduction measures --Policy progress in mitigating GHG emissions originating from agricultural activities --Possible responses to the mitigation policy challenges for agriculture Managing the trade-offs between mitigation effectiveness and the distributional impacts of mitigation policies --Mitigation policy options for managing the impacts of leakage --The importance of policy coherence and policy certainty --Policy options for MRV and other challenges related to SCS measures --MRV challenges and mitigation policy solutions for agriculture in general --Policy implementation challenges and solutions specific to SCS --Conclusions --Notes --References --2 Global analysis of mitigation policies for agriculture: Impacts and trade-offs The importance of agriculture to global mitigation efforts --Modelling mitigation policies in agriculture for OECD countries and the world --The MAGNET model and scope of analysis --Designing policies to unlock agriculture's mitigation potential --Policies that directly target emissions --Policies that target emission intensive production inputs and consumer products --GHG ; emission reductions and economic consequences of mitigation policies in agriculture --Summary of findings --Notes --References --3 Farm-level analysis of mitigation policies for agriculture --Introduction A bio-economic framework for dairy and crop production --Overview of the bio-economic framework --Data and model calibration --Results --Baseline scenario --GHG emission constraint: Abatement cost function and marginal abatement costs --GHG emission tax, abatement subsidy, and cap-and-trade --Input taxes on ruminant heads and nitrogen fertiliser --Mitigation policy instruments and the role of sunk investment costs --Ancillary environmental costs and benefits of GHG mitigation policies --Ranking alternative policy instruments by cost effectiveness --Discussion of results and caveats Conclusions --Notes --References --Annex 3.A. Key parametric equations of the empirical model --Annex 3.B. List of parameter values --4 Global potential of supply-side and demand-side mitigation options --Introduction --Scenarios to reduce GHG emission --Reducing the consumption share of food produced from ruminants --Scenario definition --Results --The impact of food waste on GHG emissions --Scenario definition --Results --Production-side mitigation --Scenario definition --Results --Comparison across scenarios --Conclusions --Notes --References --Annex 4.A. Methodology
• Sommario/riassunto: Agriculture, with its growing contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions and opportunities to mitigate emissions, can help close the gap between existing global mitigation efforts and those that are needed to keep global warming to between 1.5 °C and 2 °C by the end of the century. Global scale and farm scale analyses are used to evaluate both the effectiveness of different policy options to reduce agricultural emissions, and the impact on competitiveness, farm income, food security, and government finances. In order to contribute to global mitigation efforts, countries will need to design agricultural policy measures that can navigate these trade-offs within the context of their national policy priorities and objectives. As most countries have not yet implemented policies to reduce emissions from agriculture, the analyses provided here come at an opportune time to inform this policy development.