The choice of emission indicators in environmental policy design: an analysis of GHG abatement in different dairy farms based on a bio-economic model approach

Bernd Lengers () and Wolfgang Britz
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Bernd Lengers: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut fur Lebensmittel- und Ressourcenökonomik (ILR), Abt. Ressourcen- und Umweltökonomik, Nussallee 21, 53115 Bonn, Allemagne

Review of Agricultural and Environmental Studies - Revue d'Etudes en Agriculture et Environnement, 2012, vol. 93, issue 2, 117-144

Abstract: The application of economic instruments to GHG emissions from dairy farms needs to rely on GHG indicators as actual emissions are impossible or extremely costly to measure. The choice of indicator impacts chosen abatement options, related costs and GHG actually emitted. A tool to quantify these relations is proposed which at its core consists of a highly detailed, mixed-integer dynamic programming model template able to cover a wide range of dairy farm characteristics and promising indicators. It allows deriving and comparing marginal abatement costs of GHGs emission for different farm types and indicators, informing the policy process about promising indicators, abatement strategies and related abatement and measurement costs.

Keywords: marginal abatement costs; emission indicators; dynamic mixed integer programming; greenhouse gas emissions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 Q12 Q52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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