Economic and environmental sustainability performance of environmental policies in agriculture

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“…In the present ere, businesses all over the world have shifted their environmental policy from controlling pollution level to absolute prevention level as a result of different pressure groups who continuously exert pressure on organizations to operate in an eco-friendly manner ( DeBoe, 2020 ). These pressure groups include different stakeholders for example NGOs, government, and different international bodies.…”

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Improving Firm’s Economic and Environmental Performance Through the Sustainable and Innovative Environment: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

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Businesses in the present era are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, and technological trends. This requires sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet organizations are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their business strategies with the mistaken belief that the costs associated with environmental investments outweigh the benefits. The Global Climate Risk Index has placed Pakistan on 5th position in the list of nations, most susceptible to climate change in its recent report. Pakistan lost the lives of 9,989 people, incurred economic losses of $ 3.8 billion, and faced 152 shocking climates between 1999 and 2018. Based on this information, it is established that Pakistan’s susceptibility to climate change is growing unprecedentedly and industrial pollution is one of the biggest contributors in this respect. The country needs to take emergency measures to address this issue. With this background, the present study aims to investigate the impact of environmental sustainability on environmental and economic performance (EP) with the mediating effect of environmental innovation (EI) in the manufacturing sector of Pakistan. The results show that environmental sustainability is a significant predictor of environmental performance and EP and EI mediates this relationship. The findings of the present study provide better insights to policymakers to address the environmental degradation, resulting from industrial pollution.

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“…Drivers of the technique effect can be market share reallocations, reorganisation within firms, innovation on abatement technologies (driving abatement costs down) and technological upgrades (Cherniwchan, 14 In the literature, the technique effect is usually treated as a residual effect once scale and composition effects are accounted for and it identifies the reduction of emissions due to an increase in the overall productivity (Cui, Lapan and Moschini, 2012 [68]; Cui, Lapan and Moschini, 2016 [67]). Similarly to the empirical framework used for the estimation of Total Factor Productivity (Van Beveren, 2012 [69]), one possible approach to capture the technique effect is to calculate it as the residual once scale and composition effects are identified.…”

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Carbon leakage and agriculture

Arvanitopoulos¹,

Garsous²,

Agnolucci³

2021

OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers

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The risks of carbon leakage associated with climate policies in the agricultural sector remains underresearched. Studies to date suggest that carbon pricing policies implemented by a single country, or small group of countries, reduce global emissions but also affect the international competitiveness of these countries' agricultural sectors and induce carbon leakage. While carbon leakage can be prevented with trade-related measures that adjust emissions prices at the border, such measures applied in developed countries could potentially lead to significant welfare losses for developing countries that heavily rely on agricultural exports. That said, important caveats apply to the reviewed studies: i) from an environmental perspective, estimations of carbon leakage rates alone do not offer a comprehensive assessment of how optimally agricultural activities are allocated across countries; ii) most of the studies estimate the effects of additional environmental policies, such as carbon taxes, and ignore the effects of existing policies, including market distorting and potentially environmentally harmful support for agricultural production.

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“…The agricultural sector can contribute to climate change mitigation through greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions and CDR via carbon sequestration in vegetation and soils, and by providing biomass for mitigation in the energy, industry and transport sectors through substitution of fossil fuels and other GHG-intensive products 4 . At the same time, the agriculture sector needs to address water, soil, and biodiversity impacts caused by historic and current practices 5,6 and adapt to climate change, which is expected to cause new stresses on agricultural systems and exacerbate risks to livelihoods, human and ecosystem health, and food systems 4 .…”

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Large-scale deployment of grass in crop rotations as a multifunctional climate mitigation strategy

Englund¹,

Mola‐Yudego²,

Börjesson³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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The agricultural sector can contribute to climate change mitigation by reducing its own greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sequestering atmospheric carbon in vegetation and soils, and by providing biomass for substituting fossil fuels and other GHG intensive products in the energy, industry and transport sectors. New policies at EU level provide incentives for more sustainable land use practices, for example, cultivation systems using perennial plants that provide biomass for food, bioenergy and other biobased products along with land carbon sequestration and other environmental benefits. Based on spatial modelling across more than 81,000 landscapes in Europe, we find that introduction of grass-clover leys into rotations with annual crops could result in soil organic carbon sequestration corresponding to 5-10% of total current GHG emissions from agriculture in EU27+UK, annually until 2050. The combined annual GHG savings from soil carbon sequestration and use of biogas produced in connection to grass-based biorefineries equals 13-48% of current GHG emissions from agriculture. The assessed environmental co-benefits (reduced wind and water erosion, reduced nitrogen emissions to water, and mitigation of impacts associated with flooding) are considerable. Besides policy instruments, new markets for grass biomass, e.g., as feedstock for producing biofuels and protein concentrate, can incentivize widespread deployment of in-rotation grass cultivation.

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Economic and environmental sustainability performance of environmental policies in agriculture

Cited by 13 publications

References 81 publications

Improving Firm’s Economic and Environmental Performance Through the Sustainable and Innovative Environment: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

Improving Firm’s Economic and Environmental Performance Through the Sustainable and Innovative Environment: Evidence From an Emerging Economy

Carbon leakage and agriculture

Large-scale deployment of grass in crop rotations as a multifunctional climate mitigation strategy

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