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DOE Project Termination for Supply Curves for Agricultural and Forestry Greenhouse Gas Emissions and their Use in Integrated Assessments: Methodology and Case Development
ABSTRACT
The results produced by this project include: (1) Development of econometrically estimated marginal abatement and
associated production curves describing response of agricultural and forestry emissions/sink/offsets enhancements for use in
integrated assessments. Curves were developed that reflected agricultural, and forestry production of traditional commodities,
carbon and other greenhouse gas offsets and biofuels given signals of general commodity demand, and carbon and energy
prices. This work was done jointly with Dr. Ronald Sands at PNNL. A paper from this is forthcoming as follows Gillig, D.,
B. A. McCarl, and R.D. Sands,’ Agricultural and Forestry GHG Mitigation Response into General Economy Frameworks:
Developing a Family of Response Functions,’ Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, forthcoming, 2004.
An additional effort was done involving dynamics and a second paper was prepared that is annex A to this report and is Gillig,
D., and B.A. McCarl, ‘Integrating Agricultural and Forestry Response to GHG Mitigation into General Economy Frameworks:
Developing a Family of Response Functions using FASOM,’ 2004. (2) Integration of the non dynamic curves from (1) into
in a version of the PNNL SGM integrated assessment model was done in cooperation with Dr. Ronald Sands at PNNL.