Policy options for controlling greenhouse gas emissions: implications for agriculture

The pace of activity around climate change legislation picked up noticeably in 2007. The increased focus brought new legislative proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These bills include cap-and-trade systems, and carbon taxes as well as energy bills that promote energy efficiency or renewables. The cap-and-trade bills generally engage agriculture through a credit system. The carbon tax bills generally defer decisions on how to include nonenergy emissions. In this article we argue that these activities can be brought into a carbon pricing system similarly to energy related emissions.

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