Regulating greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Staff

• Prof. dr. Jonathan Verschuuren (project leader)
• mr. dr. Floor Fleurke (post doc)
• dr. Michael Leach (postdoc)

Themes

• Climate change, agriculture and food security
• Climate smart agriculture
• Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock
• Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils and in vegetation in rural areas
• EU greenhouse gas emissions trading system (EU ETS)
• Comparative law methodology, California, Canadian provinces and Australia
• Designing proposals for a revised Emissions Trading Directive

Duration

2020 - 2022

The project in short

The objectives of the Paris Climate Agreement can only be achieved if greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture are also reduced and more carbon is sequestered on agricultural land. This project will examine, among other things by means of a comparative law study, how the European emissions trading system can be adapted to encourage this.

Partners

• School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• The Simpson Centre for Agricultural and Food Innovation and Public Education, University of Calgary, Canada

Publications

• If agriculture does not change, we will never meet the climate targets
• Towards an EU Regulatory Framework for Climate Smart Agriculture: the Example of Soil Carbon Sequestration 
  Jonathan Verschuuren (2018) 7:2 Transnational Environmental Law, 301-322
• Towards a Regulatory Design for Reducing Emissions from Agriculture: Lessons from Australia’s Carbon Farming Initiative 
  Jonathan Verschuuren (2017) 7:1 Climate Law, 1-51
• The Challenge of Meaningful Comparisons of ETS Systems: How Canada and the EU Price Emissions, Michael Leach
• Setting Up Carbon Offset Farming in the EU: Identifying Benefits and Risks, Floor Fleurke
• Towards EU carbon farming legislation: what is the role of the ETS?, Jonathan Verschuuren