Major challenges of integrating agriculture into climate change mitigation policy frameworks

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 23 - Trang 451-468 - 2017
Thomas Fellmann1, Peter Witzke2, Franz Weiss3, Benjamin Van Doorslaer1, Dusan Drabik4, Ingo Huck1, Guna Salputra1, Torbjörn Jansson5, Adrian Leip3
1European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, Seville, Spain
2EuroCARE, Bonn, Germany
3European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Directorate Sustainable Resources, Ispra, Italy
4Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
5Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

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Taking the European Union (EU) as a case study, we simulate the application of non-uniform national mitigation targets to achieve a sectoral reduction in agricultural non-carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Scenario results show substantial impacts on EU agricultural production, in particular, the livestock sector. Significant increases in imports and decreases in exports result in rather moderate domestic consumption impacts but induce production increases in non-EU countries that are associated with considerable emission leakage effects. The results underline four major challenges for the general integration of agriculture into national and global climate change mitigation policy frameworks and strategies, as they strengthen requests for (1) a targeted but flexible implementation of mitigation obligations at national and global level and (2) the need for a wider consideration of technological mitigation options. The results also indicate that a globally effective reduction in agricultural emissions requires (3) multilateral commitments for agriculture to limit emission leakage and may have to (4) consider options that tackle the reduction in GHG emissions from the consumption side.

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