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Understanding evolving carbon markets: how agriculture ‘fits’

Understanding evolving carbon markets: how agriculture ‘fits’. June 17, 2010 Washington, DC Agriculture & Carbon Markets: Making Carbon Count. Debbie Reed Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG). Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG). Multi-stakeholder initiative

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Understanding evolving carbon markets: how agriculture ‘fits’

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  1. Understanding evolving carbon markets:how agriculture ‘fits’ June 17, 2010 Washington, DC Agriculture & Carbon Markets: Making Carbon Count Debbie Reed Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG)

  2. Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG) • Multi-stakeholder initiative • Seeks to advance agricultural GHG mitigation solutions to benefit society, ag sector • Policy approaches to integrate GHG emissions abatement for ag with food/feed/fiber/fuel production and natural resource management • Incentive-based, market-based approaches that meet market demands, farming realities • Tap innovation, ingenuity

  3. Coalition on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (C-AGG) C-AGG Report release April, 2010 (V.1): Carbon and Agriculture: Getting Measurable Results www.c-agg.org

  4. Agriculture’s Fit in C Markets Key sector for political and technical path to successful C mitigation programs • Challenges: • Complexity of managed biological ecosystems • Managing C and N cycles to retain nutrients • MRV: balancing certainty, costs • “Farming First”: Policies must balance market, environmental assurances with ease of use, access: “farmer-friendly interface”

  5. Agriculture’s Fit in C Markets Key issues C-AGG has identified relative to agricultural participation in C markets: • Incentivizing and rewarding performance (science-based) • MRV: balancing certainty, costs • Ongoing data needs, R&D • Permanence: durability, liability, fungibility • Managing risks of losses, reversals • Of course: baselines, additionality, leakage, metrics for measurement

  6. Ag’s Access to C Markets Key Issues to be Addressed: Match Climate Needs to Agricultural Realities, Needs • Policy Approaches: Certainty • Demand/need – no false promises • Economics/value – opportunities outweigh costs • Protocol development, road-tests • Access, aggregation • Opportunities across sector • USDA institutional framework, development

  7. C-AGG: future activities • Case studies: make issues “hang” • Pilot projects – public/private cooperation? • Intensity-based metrics, approaches • Scenarios for the future: • Caps? • Voluntary Program • Programmatic Approaches • Other?

  8. C-AGG: future activities • USDA, EPA, leg branch dialogue • white papers • scale, cost, risk • Outreach/communication • Joint C-AGG, T-AGG, M-AGG fall meeting

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