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Determining Cost-Effective Climate Change Activity in Agriculture, Land Use and Forestry (2008)
Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, land use, land use change and forestry (ALULUCF) are a significant percentage of UK emissions. This means that as the UK and Scottish Governments set ambitious emissions reduction targets, the ALULUCF sectors will come under increasing scrutiny and pressure to reduce emissions. Yet while there is a range of technically feasible ways of reducing emissions in these sectors, it is not immediately apparent which options will deliver the most economically efficient reductions in greenhouse gases. As such, this briefing reports recent work for the newly appointed Committee on Climate Change (CCC) that examines the relative costs of alternative methods and technologies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the ALULUCF sectors.