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7 Climate L. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/climatla7 and id is 1 raw text is: CLIMATE LAW 7 (2017) 1-51 BRILL NIJHOFF brill.com/cI1a Towards a Regulatory Design for Reducing Emissions from Agriculture: Lessons from Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative Jonathan Verschuuren Professor of International and European Environmental Law, Tilburg University, and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, University of Sydney j.m.verschuuren@tilburguniversity.edu Abstract The land sector is essential to achieve the Paris Agreement's goals. Agriculture and land use contribute between 20 and 25 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Agreement's aim to keep the average global temperature rise between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius implies that drastic emission cuts from agriculture are needed. The sequestration potential of agriculture and land use offers an important mechanism to achieve a transition to net-zero carbon emissions worldwide. So far, however, states have been reluctant to address emissions from, and sequestration by, the agricultural sector. Some states that have or are setting up a domestic emission-trading scheme al- low for the generation of offsets in agriculture, but only to a limited extent. Australia is the only country that has a rather broad set of methodologies in place to award credits to farmers for all kinds of carbon-farming projects. This article reviews the experience with the Australian model so far, with the objective of articulating transferable lessons for regulatory design aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. It finds that it is possible to regulate for the reduction of emissions from agriculture * This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and in- novation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 655565. I wish to thank everyone at the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Climate and Environ- mental Law for their support and assistance, especially Rosemary Lyster, Ed Couzens, Kate Owens, Celeste Black, Tim Stephens, and Andrew Edgar. I also owe thanks to all the stake- holders who so generously gave their time to answer my questions, often in quite lengthy interviews. This project could not have been carried out without their contribution. I also wish to thank the journal's six referees for their detailed feedback on an earlier version of this article. Any errors remaining are my own. The data used here are current as at 1June 2016. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2017 DOI 10.1163/18786561-00701001

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