Policy interventions and components overview

All policy interventions-description/keyword

Interventions of pressure components

Template:IntroTableTemplate [[Increasing forest area to sequester CO₂ in biomass which helps to achieve stringent climate targets.]]

Changes in agricultural trade policies are applied to the corresponding quota (export or import quota) or border taxes.

Apply emission intensity standards for e.g. cars (gCO2/km), power plants (gCO2/kWh) or appliances (kWh/hour).

It is possible to prescribe the shares of renewables, CCS technology, nuclear power and other forms of generation capacity. This measure influences the amount of capacity installed of the technology chosen.

A tax on carbon leads to higher prices for carbon intensive fuels (such as fossil fuels), making low-carbon alternatives more attractive.

[[Change in grazing intensity, usually more intensive. This would require better management of grasslands, including for example the use of grass-clover mixtures and fertilisers, bringing the length of the grazing season in tune with the period of grass production, and rotations.]]

[[Exogenously set the market shares of certain fuel types. This can be done for specific analyses or scenarios to explore the broader implications of increasing the use of, for instance, biofuels, electricity or hydrogen and reflects the impact of fuel targets.]]

It is possible to promote the use of electricity and hydrogen at the end-use level.

Interventions that target consumption changes or changes in dietary preferences

General changes in crop and livestock production systems, e.g. more efficient production methods to create higher production per unit of input, or other systems like organic farming

This intervention increases actual yields (reduces the gap between potential and actual yields), usually realized by better management.

Changing the prices through energy tax or subsidy for the various energy carriers influences the choice of technology and thus the level of emissions.

Increase in areas with protected status, as well the size of the areas as the numer of parks.

Certain energy technology options can be excluded in the model for environmental, societal, and/or security reasons.

Increasing the share of produced wood yielded with Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) practices instead of conventional logging practices.

[[Policies to enhance the use of biofuels, especially in the transport sector. In the Agricultural economy component only 'first generation' crops are taken into account. The policy is implemented as a budget-neutral policy from government perspective, e.g. a subsidy is implemented to achieve a certain share of biofuels in fuel production and an end-user tax is applied to counterfinance the implemented subsidy.]]

Application of zoning laws or cadastres, assigning areas to certain land uses.

Sustainability criteria that could become binding for dedicated bio-energy production, such as the restrictive use of water-scarce or degraded areas.

Exogenously set improvement in efficiency. Such improvements can be introduced for the submodels that focus on particular technologies, for example, in transport, heavy industry and households submodels.

Increase the use of wood from highly productive wood plantations instead of wood from (semi-) natural forests.

[[Sustainable forest management aims for maintaining long-term harvest potential and good ecological status of forests (e.g. the nutrient balance and biodiversity). This can be implemented by (i) enlarging the return period when a forest can be harvested again; (ii) only using certain fractions of the harvested biomass and leave the remaining part in the forests.]]

Taxes greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture to achieve cost-optimal mitigation in the agricultural sector.

Production targets for energy technologies can be set to force technologies through a learning curve.

Increases the efficiency of bio-energy use.

The objective of REDD policies it to reduce land-use related emissions by protecting existing forests in the world; The implementation of REDD includes also costs of policies.

Reduction of losses in the agro-food chain and waste after consumption.

As part of energy security policies, fuel trade between different regions can be blocked.

Reduces the costs of modern energy to reduce traditional energy use (can be targeted to low income groups).

Interventions of state components

Template:IntroTableTemplate [[Improved irrigation efficiency]]

• Improved irrigation efficiency assumes an increase in the irrigation project efficiency and irrigation conveyance efficiency.

[[Improved manure storage]]

• Improved manure storage systems (ST), considering 20% lower NH₃ emissions from animal housing and storage systems.

[[Improved rainwater management]]

• Improved rainwater management assumes a decrease in the evaporative losses from rainfed agriculture and the creation of small scale reservoirs to harvest rainwater during the wet period and use it during a dryer period. Both measures lead to more efficient use of water and increased yields on rainfed fields.

[[Increased storage capacity]]

• Increasing storage capacity assumes that the total water volume stored in large reservoirs will increase. This can either be established by an increase of the capacity of existing reservoirs, or by building new reservoirs.

[[Integrated manure management]]

• Better integration of manure in crop production systems. This consists of recycling of manure that under the baseline scenario ends up outside the agricultural system (e.g. manure used as fuel), in crop systems to substitute fertiliser. In addition, there is improved integration of animal manure in crop systems, particularly in industrialised countries.

[[Sanitation measures]]

• Increase the access to improved sanitation, and connection to sewage systems
• institution of wastewater treatment installations
• recycling of human waste for substitution of synthetic fertilisers.

Interventions of impact components

Template:IntroTableTemplate [[Hydropower]]

• Construction of dams and reservoirs in rivers

[[Improve behaviour]]

• Reduce the health impacts of malnutrition and inadequate access to safe drinking water, basic sanitaion and modern sources of energy, through, for example, improving female education, promoting good hygiene and providing good indoor good ventilation

[[Improve quality of access]]

• Improve the quality of access to drinking water, sanitation and modern sources of energy, through, for example, household connections to drinking-water supply and the use of LPG or kerosene instead of traditional biomass on improved biomass stoves

[[Increase access to food]]

• Increase access to food by targeting food prices for the poorest households

[[Increase access to water]]

• Increase access to safe drinking water and improved sanitation by lowering prices and investing in infrastructure

Interventions of response components

Template:IntroTableTemplate [[Carbon tax]]

• A tax on carbon leads to higher prices for carbon intensive fuels (such as fossil fuels), making low-carbon alternatives more attractive.

[[Climate change adaptation]]

• Adaptation to climate change reduces climate damage. The model can optimally calculate the optimal adaptation level based on marginal adaptation costs and marginal avoided damage, but an alternative adaptation level can be used as well.

[[Effort- or burden-sharing of emission reductions]]

• Evaluation of burden-sharing or effort-sharing regimes. Which regions or countries should contribute, when and by how much to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions?

[[Emission trading policy]]

• Analysis of the effect of rules for trading emission credits on regional abatement costs.

[[Financing climate policy]]

• Developed countries could provide financial resources to assist developing countries by implementation of mitigation and adaptation policies. To mobilise these funds, several mechanisms exist, of which the effect can be analysed

[[Reduction proposals (pledges)]]

• Evaluation of current reduction proposals by countries and policy options (for the next 10-20 years).