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Behavioural response to alternative policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

This report documents findings produced by Task 3.2 “Transition of agri-environmental systems to climate-neutral food systems” within WP3 “Agri-environmental policy experimentation”. The task aims to explore EU farmers’ acceptance of both compulsory measures (such as an agricultural emissions trading scheme) and voluntary carbon markets. It will also examine other economic instruments, including carbon, or CO2e, taxes and innovative subsidy schemes (such as result-based payments (RBPs) and hybrid payments (HPs)), designed to encourage climate-friendly farming practices. In addition, Task 3.2 has the objective to investigate whether and to what extent behavioural factors affect farmers’ acceptability of such economic policy instruments. To address these objectives, two contextualized experiments involving a total of about 1,100 farmers were conducted, one in Italy and the other in Denmark.

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