Cost-Effective Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Agriculture of Aragon, Spain.

ABSTRACT: Climate change represents a serious threat to life in earth. Agriculture releases significant emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), but also offers low-cost opportunities to mitigate GHG emissions. This paper assesses agricultural GHG emissions in Aragon, one important and representative region for agriculture in Spain. The Marginal Abatement Cost Curve (MACC) approach is used to analyze the abatement potential and cost-efficiency of mitigation measures under several scenarios, with and without taking into account the interaction among measures and their transaction costs. The assessment identifies the environmental and economic outcomes of different combinations of measures, including crop, livestock and forest measures. Some of these measures are win-win, with pollution abatement at negat

SUBMITTER: Baccour S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7908559 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature