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The Relative Role of Land in Climate Policy

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  • Golub, Alla A.
  • Hertel, Thomas W.
  • Rose, Steven K.
  • Sohngen, Brent
  • Avetisyan, Misak

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Land-based activities are responsible for a large part of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet the economics of land-use decisions have rarely been explicitly modeled in global mitigation studies. This paper integrates the analysis of land use related non-CO2 emissions and carbon forest sequestration with more conventional analyses of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion to provide a comprehensive assessment of the relative role of land in global GHG emissions and mitigation. For this paper, we utilize a new general equilibrium framework which effectively captures the opportunity costs of land-use decisions in agriculture and forestry, the implications of these decisions for GHG emissions, as well as mitigation options in agriculture and forestry. By combining this with a more conventional analysis of fossil fuel-based CO2 emissions mitigation, we are able to analyze trade-offs and feedbacks between GHG emissions reductions in land-based and fossil fuel combustion intensive sectors. We explore the general equilibrium effects when land rents are endogenous and large-scale adoption of mitigation technologies produces feedbacks across sectors and regions.

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  • Golub, Alla A. & Hertel, Thomas W. & Rose, Steven K. & Sohngen, Brent & Avetisyan, Misak, 2009. "The Relative Role of Land in Climate Policy," 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49513, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea09:49513
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.49513
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    1. Melania Michetti & Matteo Zampieri, 2014. "Climate–Human–Land Interactions: A Review of Major Modelling Approaches," Land, MDPI, vol. 3(3), pages 1-41, July.

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