Even in SA, which uses gas, not coal, for base - load power and makes much greater use of wind, Cumming estimates the cost
of greenhouse gas abatement at $ 1484 a tonne.
Whole Farm System Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emission Abatement Strategies for Dairy Farms: Final Report to Dairy Australia on the Investigation and Analysis into
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Strategies, Modelling and Decision Tools for the Australian Dairy Industry
Indeed, the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.'s recent
greenhouse gas abatement cost curve analysis found that tropical forest conservation has the potential to reduce carbon pollution at just a fraction of the cost of other essential strategies, like installing clean energy or improving agricultural practices.
Under the State Government's two - year - old
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, energy suppliers such as AGL and Energy Australia must buy carbon credits to meet mandatory targets for reducing greenhouse gas.
(Among the Democrats
pitching greenhouse gas abatement strategies, Biden, Clinton, Edwards, Obama, and Richardson all propose cap - and - trade systems, while only Dodd backs a tax — in addition to a trading scheme.)
The results indicate that, if CERs are accepted as eligible units of compliance under CORSIA without any restrictions, the demand for offset credits from international aviation to 2035 is unlikely to either materially impact the current price level for CERs or alter the overall level of
greenhouse gas abatement undertaken.
Fowler, R., 2004: Lessons from the implementation of a mandatory project -
based greenhouse gas abatement scheme in the state of New South Wales, Australia.
A «baseline - and - credit guy» who wants to replicate Bob Carr's
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, the director of consulting firm Frontier Economics doesn't like emissions trading.
Allowance auctions (mostly at the floor price) have generated about $ 2.2 billion in cumulative revenue, two thirds of which has been allocated to energy efficiency,
greenhouse gas abatement, renewable energy support and electricity bill assistance.
I don't know, I think tying this to California is the priority in California's policies more renewables or
greenhouse gas abatement?
While the statement above is true — and while more publicly funded R&D into
all greenhouse gas abatement strategies (including carbon removal) is almost certainly a positive thing — focusing exclusively on this «one thing» to fight climate change is likely sub-optimal for a number of reasons:
I would advise farmers to avoid
all greenhouse gases abatement permits completely.
Barker, T., J. Köhler, and M. Villena, 2002: The costs of
greenhouse gas abatement: A meta - analysis of Post-SRES mitigation scenarios.