On the Environmental Impacts of Voluntary Animal-based Policies in the EU: Technical and Political Considerations

Fabio Santeramo, Emilia Lamonaca, Marco Tappi and Leonardo Di Gioia

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Abstract: The livestock sector has a large influence on direct and indirect (via land use change) greenhouse gas emissions, with potential negative impacts on climate change. We quantify the environmental impacts related to the introduction of a voluntary animal-based policy supported by the European Union (EU), the Measure 14 of Rural Development Programmes 2014-2020 on animal welfare. We focus on methane and nitrous oxide emissions (direct impacts), and on carbon-based and nitrous oxide emissions from land use change (indirect impacts). Our case study is the dairy sector of the EU Member States. We found that the animal-based measures have (on average) limited environmental impacts, although marked differences exist across Member States.

Keywords: Animal welfare; Emission; EU policy; Livestock; Rural development. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q51 Q53 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-gen
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