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Nitrous Oxide in Cap and Trade Systems

MCLI Recommendation: “When designing and implementing cap-and-trade programs, EPA and regional governments should incentivize nitrous oxide emission reductions from agricultural and livestock sources by providing offset credit for such reductions.”

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Resource Congress

Report, Nitrogen Management Project Protocol

The Climate Action Reserve’s Nitrogen Management Project Protocol provides guidance on how to quantify, monitor, and verify greenhouse gas emission reductions from improving nitrogen use efficiency in...
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EPRI Report, Creating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets by Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Agricultural Crop Production

EPRI’s 2013 report sought to define a scientifically robust, straightforward, readily implementable, and widely adoptable N2O emissions reduction offsets methodology that can be used by farmers to cre...
Example Foreign

Alberta’s Cap and Trade Program

Alberta’s Cap and Trade Program allows offset credits for reductions of nitrous oxide and other GHGs from agricultural sources, and has developed an offset protocol for estimating nitrous oxide reduct...
Example Foreign

New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme Agricultural Reporting Requirement

The New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme requires agricultural sources to report emissions, although it has not yet established any cap on emissions from these sources. The government is in a consulta...
Example States and State Governments

California Emissions Trading Scheme

California’s cap-and-trade program covers nitrous oxide emissions from power plants, nitric acid facilities, and transportation fuels. If these facilities generation 25,000 tons of CO2-e or more per y...
Example Foreign

EU Emissions Trading Scheme

The EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme imposes nitrous oxide limits on the production of nitric, adipic, glyoxal, and glyoxylic acids.