Coupled agricultural subsidies in the EU undermine climate efforts

Abstract

Subsidizing polluting industries generally leads to increased pollution locally. However, given the diversity of production technologies across countries and international trade, the global impact of unilateral policies is not a priori clear. We use the agricultural sector model CAPRI to simulate the impact of removing the voluntary coupled support for ruminants, presently permitted under the EU Common Agricultural Policy. We find that this reduces greenhouse gas emissions in the EU. However, emissions leakage significantly diminishes the global mitigation effect since about 3/4 of the reduction in the EU is offset by increased emissions in the rest of the world.

Keywords

Agricultural Policy; Climate Change; Coupled Support; Emissions Leakage; EU; Q18; Q54; Q17

Published in

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
2021, volume: 43, number: 4, pages: 1503-1519

SLU Authors

• Jansson, Torbjörn

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Nordin, Ida

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Manevska Tasevska, Gordana

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Global goals (SDG)

SDG13 Climate action
SDG17 Partnerships for the goals

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13092

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/108327