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Project Code [2021-CE-1023]
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Project title
Land-Use, Agriculture & Bioenergy Measures-for-the-Abatement of Climate Change & inclusion in Marginal Abatement Cost-Curve analyses
Primary Funding Agency
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
Environmental Protection Agency
Lead Organisation
Teagasc
Lead Applicant
Karl Richards
Project Abstract
The Climate Action Plan envisages a 51% reduction in national Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 2030, with agriculture set the goal of achieving Climate Neutrality by 2050 at a national, all-Island and EU level. Achievement of these targets pose significant challenges for agriculture across the island of Ireland, especially in the context of sustained economic and GHG emissions growth since 2011. Previous Teagasc Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACCs) calculated the abatement potential of agriculture, land-use and agri-bioenergy to be between 5.5 and 9 megatonnes CO2e per annum based on 27 individual measures. This new project seeks to build on the previous MACC and quantify mitigation associated with a range of new measures that reduce N2O emissions, enhance carbon sinks via land-use and displace fossil fuel emissions via closed farm nutrient loops using enhanced production of bio-based products. This project will refine national emission factors so that the mitigation measures can be incorporated into national inventories and enable farmers to receive credit for emissions reduction. It will also evaluate the economic and mitigation consequences of incorporation of abatement measures into production systems and help develop farmer decision support tools. The project will focus on knowledge transfer and the delivery of timely messaging and demonstration to farmers using the Signpost farms programme. The project will generate new projections of GHG emissions out towards 2050 and a new MACC analysis will be generated incorporating the new measures evaluated in this project and other current and future projects to identify the pathways for agricultural to become climate neutral by 2050.
Grant Approved
�250,000.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Initial Projected Completion Date
31/10/2026