tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post4820825769794712188..comments2024-03-28T09:22:36.967+13:00Comments on Offsetting Behaviour: Sheep gutsEric Cramptonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15831696523324469713noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-54759704008966188622015-04-30T15:57:35.314+12:002015-04-30T15:57:35.314+12:00That was one reason, but not the main reason (at l...That was one reason, but not the main reason (at least in Australia's now defunct CPRS, with which I am familiar). The main reason was that agricultural emissions are so diffuse and hard to measure that the measurement and compliance costs would have swamped any benefits generated from including them.<br /><br />The CPRS had a proposed 25 kilotonne per year minimum limit for inclusion in the scheme, and the best guess from ABARE at the time was that there might be 50 farms in the whole country that hit that threshold.Evannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-15620447506099757062015-04-30T13:43:06.913+12:002015-04-30T13:43:06.913+12:00I'd thought that the delayed accession of agri...I'd thought that the delayed accession of agriculture into the ETS was to give time for this kind of tech development.Eric Cramptonhttp://offsettingbehaviour.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-22373196828883203352015-04-30T13:28:51.959+12:002015-04-30T13:28:51.959+12:00What (apart from carbon pricing) would motivate an...What (apart from carbon pricing) would motivate anyone to increase their costs of production by purchasing the treatment?RobSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830084253401570472.post-8043824298587042062015-04-30T11:15:07.379+12:002015-04-30T11:15:07.379+12:00This was always my argument (and likewise the firs...This was always my argument (and likewise the first and last chapter of Superfreakonomics): it won't be the steady price induced decline of carbon intensive industries over two generations which may prevent global warming, it's the development of carbon neutral or negative technologies which continue to permit economic growth. Just like it was the invention of the motor car which freed our cities from mountains of horse manure. <br /><br /><br /><br />Richard Branson actually ran a prize for carbon negative technologies a few years ago. I believe it didn't really go anywhere useful. But, as a concept, still very much worthwhile. One could imagine a standing prize for cost effective carbon negative technologies, just like the Ansari X price for repeated space flight a few years ago.Ryan Reynoldsnoreply@blogger.com