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Developing carbon budgets for UK agriculture, land-use, land-use change and forestry out to 2022 |
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| Authors: | Dominic Moran Michael MacLeod Eileen Wall Vera Eory Alistair McVittie Andrew Barnes R M Rees Cairistiona F E Topp Guillaume Pajot Robin Matthews Pete Smith Andrew Moxey |
| Institution: | 1. SAC, West Mains Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3JG, UK 2. Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, UK 3. University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK 4. Pareto Consulting, Edinburgh, UK |
| Abstract: | This paper derives a notional future carbon budget for UK agriculture, land use, land use change and forestry sectors (ALULUCF). The budget is based on a bottom-up marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) derived for a range of mitigation measures for specified adoption scenarios for the years 2012, 2017 and 2022. The results indicate that in 2022 around 6.36 MtCO2e could be abated at negative or zero cost. Furthermore, in the same year, over 17% of agricultural GHG emissions (7.85 MtCO2e) could be abated at a cost of less than the 2022 Shadow Price of Carbon (£34 (tCO2e)???1). The development of robust MACCs faces a range of methodological hurdles that complicate cost-effectiveness appraisal in ALULUCF relative to other sectors. Nevertheless, the current analysis provides an initial route map of efficient measures for mitigation in UK agriculture. |
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