Enhancing Climate Change Mitigation Through Agriculture

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Executive Summary
1 Potential for mitigation policies in agriculture: Summary insights
	The need to reduce agricultural emissions
	Technical and economic potential for supply-side mitigation in agriculture
	The mitigation potential of demand-side waste reduction measures
	Policy progress in mitigating GHG emissions originating from agricultural activities
	Possible responses to the mitigation policy challenges for agriculture
		Managing the trade-offs between mitigation effectiveness and the distributional impacts of mitigation policies
	Mitigation policy options for managing the impacts of leakage
	The importance of policy coherence and policy certainty
	Policy options for MRV and other challenges related to SCS measures
		MRV challenges and mitigation policy solutions for agriculture in general
		Policy implementation challenges and solutions specific to SCS
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
2 Global analysis of mitigation policies for agriculture: Impacts and trade-offs
	The importance of agriculture to global mitigation efforts
	Modelling mitigation policies in agriculture for OECD countries and the world
		The MAGNET model and scope of analysis
		Designing policies to unlock agriculture’s mitigation potential
			Policies that directly target emissions
			Policies that target emission intensive production inputs and consumer products
	GHG emission reductions and economic consequences of mitigation policies in agriculture
	Summary of findings
	Notes
	References
3 Farm-level analysis of mitigation policies for agriculture
	Introduction
	A bio-economic framework for dairy and crop production
		Overview of the bio-economic framework
	Data and model calibration
	Results
		Baseline scenario
		GHG emission constraint: Abatement cost function and marginal abatement costs
		GHG emission tax, abatement subsidy, and cap-and-trade
		Input taxes on ruminant heads and nitrogen fertiliser
		Mitigation policy instruments and the role of sunk investment costs
	Ancillary environmental costs and benefits of GHG mitigation policies
		Ranking alternative policy instruments by cost effectiveness
	Discussion of results and caveats
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
		Annex 3.A. Key parametric equations of the empirical model
		Annex 3.B. List of parameter values
4 Global potential of supply-side and demand-side mitigation options
	Introduction
	Scenarios to reduce GHG emission
		Reducing the consumption share of food produced from ruminants
			Scenario definition
			Results
		The impact of food waste on GHG emissions
			Scenario definition
			Results
		Production-side mitigation
			Scenario definition
			Results
	Comparison across scenarios
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
		Annex 4.A. Methodology
		Extensions to Aglink-Cosimo
			Regional GHG intensity change
			Global GHG intensity change
			Global production volume change
		Technical scenario implementation
5 Global mitigation potential of biofuels in the transport sector
	Introduction
	Biofuels and greenhouse gas emission savings in the transport sector
		Greenhouse gas emissions associated with biofuels
		Biofuel-related greenhouse gas emission savings at the 2030 horizon in the transport sector
		Emissions related to land use change
	Assessing the potential contribution of biofuels in the decarbonisation  of the transport sector: Scenario definition
		The IEA perspective
		Definition of an AGLINK-COSIMO scenario
	Scenario results
		Biofuel markets
		Agricultural markets
		Summary of main findings
	Conclusions
	Notes
	References
		Annex 5.A. Literature review on WTW emissions
		Annex 5.B. An overview of the AGLINK-COSIMO biofuel model