Agricultural GHG emissions in the EU: an exploratory economic assessment of mitigation policy options
Thomas Fellmann,
Ignacio Perez Dominguez (ignacio.perez-dominguez@ec.europa.eu),
Heinz Peter Witzke (peter.witzke@eurocare-bonn.de),
Torbjorn Jansson,
Diti Oudendag,
Alexander Gocht (alexander.gocht@vti.bund.de) and
David Verhoog (david.verhoog@wur.nl)
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Heinz Peter Witzke: EuroCARE
Alexander Gocht: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute (vTI)
David Verhoog: Agricultural Economics Research Institute
No JRC69817, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre
Abstract:
The main objective of this report is to assess the GHG emission reduction potential of a selected number of policy options and to quantify related production and economic impacts for the agricultural sector in the EU. Therefore the possible future evolution of agricultural GHG emissions in the EU are assessed through the simulation of scenarios including expected macro- and micro-economic changes. The proposed mitigation policy scenarios are all exploratory, i.e. it is intended to explore what could happen if policies would be implemented that explicitly force farmers in the EU-27 to reach certain GHG emission reduction targets. It has to be stressed that all policy scenarios are rather theoretical and hypothetical and do not necessarily reflect mitigation policies that are already agreed on, or are under formal discussion.
Keywords: Economic analysis; impact assessment; Common Agricultural Policy; agricultural trade; agricultural markets; competitiveness; modelling tools; price volatility; database (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 176 pages
Date: 2012-01
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