Energy use and its related emissions in European Union’s agriculture

Alina Zaharia () and Aurelia Gabriela Antonescu
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Alina Zaharia: Faculty of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Aurelia Gabriela Antonescu: Faculty of Agro-Food and Environmental Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

International Conference on Competitiveness of Agro-food and Environmental Economy Proceedings, 2014, vol. 3, 282-291

Abstract: The requirements of diminishing the energy use at European Union’s level was highly emphasized when were adopted the 2020 targets in its development strategy. The economic, social and environmental implications represent the causes that were the basis for this decision. The agriculture represents an important sector in the EU’s policies, because the member states must assure the food security and safety for the future in very uncertain conditions and with uncertain incomes for farmers. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the energy consumption and the emissions generated by it from agriculture at EU level. For better results, was made a comparative historical analysis for European Union on 11 years. The results show a reduction of EU’s energy consumption from agriculture by 12.29% during 2000-2010 and the CO2 emissions generated by the energy use in agriculture have decreased by 15.02% during the analyzed period of time, meaning that the sustainable policies for reducing the energy consumption and emissions in agriculture started to be effective.

Keywords: Agriculture; comparative data analysis; energy use; European Union; greenhouse gas emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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