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creators_name: Schneider, U.A.
creators_name: McCarl, B.A.
creators_id: AL1742
title: Appraising agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation potentials: effects of alternative assumptions
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keywords: Agriculture; Economic potential; Forestry; Greenhouse gas emission mitigation
abstract: There is interest in society in general and in the agricultural and forestry sectors concerning a land-based role in greenhouse gas mitigation reduction. Numerous studies have estimated the potential supply schedules at which agriculture and forestry could produce greenhouse gas offsets. However, such studies vary widely in critical assumptions regarding economic market adjustments, allowed scope of mitigation alternatives, and region of focus. Here, we examine the effects of using different assumptions on the total emission mitigation supply curve from agriculture and forestry in the United States. To do this we employ the U.S.-based Agricultural Sector and Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Model and find that variations in such factors can have profound effects on the results. Differences between commonly employed methods shift economic mitigation potentials from -55 to + 85%. The bias is stronger at higher carbon prices due to afforestation and energy crop plantations that reduce supply of traditional commodities. Lower carbon prices promote management changes with smaller impacts on commodity supply.
date: 2006-11
date_type: published
id_number: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00162.x
creators_browse_id: 2857
full_text_status: none
publication: Agricultural Economics
volume: 35
number: 3
pagerange: 277-287
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0169-5150
coversheets_dirty: FALSE
fp7_project: no
fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
citation:   Schneider, U.A. <https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/view/iiasa/2857.html> & McCarl, B.A.  (2006).  Appraising agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation potentials: effects of alternative assumptions.   Agricultural Economics 35 (3) 277-287. 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00162.x <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00162.x>.