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| Schneider, Uwe A.; Lee, Heng-Chi; McCarl, Bruce A.; Chen, Chi-Chung. |
| The Kyoto Protocol represents the first international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Proposed mitigation efforts may involve the agricultural sector through such options as planting trees, crop and livestock management changes, and biofuels production. The combined use of these strategies could substantially reduce net emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. However, countries where the Protocol imposes emissions caps have expressed concern about their competitiveness with countries that are not part of the Kyoto Protocol. In a free-trade arena, food production and exports in unregulated countries could increase and reduce market share for the producers in complying countries. We examine the effects of differential Protocol... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Sector Model; Crop exports; Food production; Greenhouse gas emission mitigation; International trade; Kyoto Protocol; Leakage; Environmental Economics and Policy; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18366 |
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| Schneider, Uwe A.; McCarl, Bruce A.; Murray, Brian C.; Williams, Jimmy R.; Sands, Ronald D.. |
| We use the Agricultural Sector Model to analyze the economic potential of soil carbon sequestration as one of several agricultural greenhouse gas emission mitigation strategies, including afforestation. For low incentives on carbon emission savings, agricultural soil carbon sequestration is the most cost-efficient strategy. As incentive levels increase above $50 per ton of carbon equivalent, afforestation and biofuel production become the key strategies, while the role of soil carbon diminishes. If saturating sinks are discounted based on their net present value, the competitive economic equilibrium among agricultural mitigation strategies shifts away from soil carbon sequestration and afforestation and toward more biofuel production. Regardless of the... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Afforestation; Agricultural Sector Model; Carbon sequestration dynamics; Economic potential; Emission leakage; Greenhouse gas emission mitigation; Sink saturation; Technical potential; Volatility; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/18378 |
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