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    Marginal abatement cost curves for UK agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

    Date
    2010
    Author
    Moran D
    Macleod M
    Wall E
    Eory V
    McVittie A
    Barnes A
    Rees RM
    Topp CFE
    Moxey A
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    Abstract
    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 CO2 equivalent (e) could be abated at negative or zero cost. A further 17% of agricultural GHG emissions (7.85 Mt CO2e) could be abated at a lower unit cost than the UK Government’s 2022 shadow price of carbon [£34 (tCO2e)−1]. The article discusses a range of methodological hurdles that complicate cost-effectiveness appraisal of abatement in agriculture relative to other sectors.
    Journal Title/Title of Proceedings
    Journal of Agricultural Economics
    Volume/Issue Number
    62:1
    Page Numbers
    93‐118
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11262/8001
    http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00268.x
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