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Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia

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  • Kai Tang
  • Atakelty Hailu
  • Marit E. Kragt
  • Chunbo Ma

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type="main" xml:id="ajar12135-abs-0001"> Broadacre agriculture is a major emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG). To improve efficiency of climate change policies, we need to know the marginal abatement costs of agricultural GHG. This article combines calculations of on-farm GHG emissions with an input-based distance function approach to estimate the marginal abatement costs for a broadacre farming system in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia. The results show that, in the study region, the average marginal abatement cost for the 1998–2005 periods was $29.3 per tonne CO 2 -e. Farms with higher crop output shares were found to have higher marginal abatement costs. Overall, our results indicate that broadacre agriculture is among the lowest cost sources of GHG mitigation.

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  • Kai Tang & Atakelty Hailu & Marit E. Kragt & Chunbo Ma, 2016. "Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 60(3), pages 459-475, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajarec:v:60:y:2016:i:3:p:459-475
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