Projections of future levels of Greenhouse Gas and Ammonia Emissions from the Irish Agriculture Sector

Trevor Donnellan () and Kevin Hanrahan
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Trevor Donnellan: Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc, Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland
Kevin Hanrahan: Rural Economy and Development Programme, Teagasc, Athenry, Co. Galway, Ireland

No 618, Working Papers from Rural Economy and Development Programme,Teagasc

Abstract: The economic impact of trade policy reform receives less attention than the impact of trade policy on the environment. In part this may be due to the secondary importance attributed to environmental issues when economic consequences take centre stage. However, another consideration may be the difficulties of bringing together models which examine the economic impact of trade policy reform and models which can provide measures of environmental indicators. This study combines a partial equilibrium economic commodity model with a model for the estimation of agricultural input usage and GHG emissions. The paper examines one aspect of the relationship between trade policy and the environment, namely that between agricultural trade policy reform and indicators relating to emissions of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) from agriculture. The paper examines the impact of agricultural production levels and production practices on the level of GHG emissions from agriculture in Ireland under a Baseline of the recent reform of EU agricultural policy and an alternate scenario where trade policy reforms resulting from a future World Trade Organisation Doha Development Round agreement to reveal the extent to which there are significant environmental impacts which should be considered in addition to the conventional economic considerations.

Keywords: partial equilibrium models; trade reform; greenhouse gas emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2006
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