Reprint Number 2008-2
Policy options for controlling greenhouse gas emissions: implications for agriculture
Metcalf, G.E., and J.M. Reilly, Choices 23(1): 34-37

Abstract, as published:

The pace of activity around climate change legislation picked up noticeably in 2007. The increased focus brought new legislative proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These bills include cap-and-trade systems, and carbon taxes as well as energy bills that promote energy efficiency or renewables. The cap-and-trade bills generally engage agriculture through a credit system. The carbon tax bills generally defer decisions on how to include nonenergy emissions. In this article we argue that these activities can be brought into a carbon pricing system similarly to energy related emissions.

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