Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for UK Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dominic Moran; Michael Macleod; Eileen Wall; Vera Eory; Alistair McVittie; Andrew Barnes; Robert Rees; Cairistiona F. E. Topp; Andrew Moxey

doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00268.x

Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for UK Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Dominic Moran^*, Michael Macleod, Eileen Wall, Vera Eory, Alistair McVittie, Andrew Barnes, Robert Rees, Cairistiona F. E. Topp, Andrew Moxey

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Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

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This article addresses the challenge of developing a 'bottom-up' marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from UK agriculture. An MACC illustrates the costs of specific crop, soil and livestock abatement measures against a 'business as usual' scenario. The results indicate that in 2022 under a specific policy scenario, around 5.38 Mt CO(2) equivalent (e) could be abated at negative or zero cost. A further 17% of agricultural GHG emissions (7.85 Mt CO(2)e) could be abated at a lower unit cost than the UK Government's 2022 shadow price of carbon [34 pound (tCO(2)e)-1]. The article discusses a range of methodological hurdles that complicate cost-effectiveness appraisal of abatement in agriculture relative to other sectors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	93-118
Number of pages	26
Journal	Journal of agricultural economics
Volume	62
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00268.x
Publication status	Published - Feb 2011

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Agriculture
climate change
marginal abatement costs
Q52
Q54
Q58
MITIGATION
MANAGEMENT

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