Full title: Enhancing climate change mitigation through agriculture.

Author/creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

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Record Identifier: 74VKa6VlxPed

Language: English

Formats: ebooks

Contents: 1 online resource (136 pages), , , , 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

Publishers: Paris : OECD Publishing, [2019]

Notes: Title from content provider. Includes bibliographical references.

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DDC: 363.738746

MMS ID: 991024341574502626