An evaluation of the effect of greenhouse gas accounting methods on a marginal abatement cost curve for Irish agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-118

  O'Brien, Donal ^a   Shalloo, Laurence ^a   Crosson, Paul ^a   Donnellan, Trevor ^b   Farrelly, Niall ^c   Finnan, John ^c   Hanrahan, Kevin ^b   Lalor, Stan ^c   Lanigan, Gary ^c   Thorne, Fiona ^b   Schulte, Rogier ^c  

^a ANIMAL AND GRASSLAND RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Ireland)

^b Rural Economy Research Centre Ireland   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Greenhouse gas; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Life cycle assessment; Marginal abatement cost curve

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; HUMAN; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE GUIDELINE FOR NATIONAL GREENHOUSE GAS INVENTORY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MARGINAL ABATEMENT COST CURVE; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84900303406     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2013.09.001     Document Type: Article

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