<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>27</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&quot;King, H&quot;</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The challenges of finding efficient policy measures to reduce Australia's agricultural greenhouse gas emissions</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.crawford.anu.edu.au/research_units/eerh/pdf/EERH_RR9.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Environmental Economics Research Hub</style></publisher><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Australia’s climate change policy has a comprehensive emissions trading scheme (ETS) as its principal greenhouse gas mitigation policy instrument. While there are undoubtedly benefits of full ETS coverage, these benefits must be balanced against potential costs if emissions that cannot be affordably and reasonably accurately measured are included. The essay explores why agriculture is different to other sectors and its diffuse and diverse emissions are inherently difficult to measure and fluctuate in response environmental factors such as climate and biophysical characteristics. These characteristics, together with the scale of over 130,000 farm enterprises mean that inclusion of the agriculture sector in the ETS, at reasonable cost and to give incentive to change behaviour at the emission source, is problematic. Worse, the emphasis on including agricultural emissions in the ETS is a disincentive for early abatement action. The essay considers alternative abatement policies and concludes that a ‘carrot and stick’ approach utilising a range of policy instruments is the best way to deliver cost effective abatement for agriculture.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>