Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia

Kai Tang, Atakelty Hailu, Marit Kragt and Chunbo Ma ()

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2016, vol. 60, issue 3

Abstract: Broadacre agriculture is a major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). To improve efficiency of climate change policies, we need to know the marginal abatement costs of agricultural GHG. This article combines calculations of on-farm GHG emissions with an input-based distance function approach to estimate the marginal abatement costs for a broadacre farming system in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. The results show that, in the study region, the average marginal abatement cost for the 1998–2005 periods was $29.3 per tonne CO2-e. Farms with higher crop output shares were found to have higher marginal abatement costs. Overall, our results indicate that broadacre agriculture is among the lowest cost sources of GHG mitigation.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292459

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