Climate Change 2019: Associating Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC) for greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture of Latvia with carbon sequestration data - Kaspars Naglis-Liepa - Latvia University of Life Science and Technologies

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Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) are one of the favorite instruments to analyze the impacts of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and emissions trading. As proven on this paper one critical aspect that impacts MACCs are energy charges. This leads to the question of the way to outline MACCs in a well-known equilibrium context in which the overall abatement stage global extensive affects electricity charges and accordingly country wide MACCs. We first speak the mechanisms theoretically and then use the CGE version DART to quantify the effects. The end result is that adjustments in energy expenses because of special world extensive abatement ranges do indeed have an effect on the countrywide MACCs. Also, we evaluate different opportunities of defining MACCs - of which a few come to be strong in opposition to modifications in power fees even as others range appreciably.