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Greenhouse gas emissions and climate protection potentials of livestock farming in NRW taking into account recent accounting approaches (Klimaschutz „Tier“)
Project
Project code: 17-02.04.01 – 05/2023
Contract period: 08.05.2023
- 31.12.2023
Budget: 78,500 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: climate balance principles, climate protection goals, development perspectives, livestock farms and processing industry in NRW
Climate protection measures in the agricultural and food sector are essential to achieve climate goals. The reduction of livestock-related greenhouse gases (GHG) is seen as an instrument to achieve agricultural climate protection goals in Germany. The inclusion of carbon opportunity costs (COC) is a new approach to account for land use, which has been difficult to account so far. This approach is based on the fact that climate accounting in agriculture has the peculiarity that a positive climate impact results from the carbon storage capacity of natural vegetation when the activity ceases. This very general principle has hardly ever been applied in concrete model calculations
related to animal husbandry; in particular, such a model calculation has not yet been carried out for NRW. Since livestock farming in NRW is increasingly under pressure from the public to justify its harmful effect on the climate, and different - sometimes contradictory - assessments of the climate impact and correspondingly different climate protection measures are being expressed, it seems advisable to objectify the debate by means of model calculations of different climate protection scenarios. The project aims to develop a climate-accounting basis, taking into account new accounting approaches, on how structurally effective changes in animal husbandry affect the achievement of climate protection targets. A special feature of the project is the involvement of relevant stakeholders in the course of the project for scenario development and validation. This is intended to ensure a high level of acceptance of the assessment results as a basis for a political consensus-building process.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
- Agroeconomics
- Climate Change
