"Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol" by Manny Rutinel and Sebastian Quaade
Rutinel, Manny and Quaade, Sebastian, Reducing Animal Agriculture Emissions: The Viability of a Farm Transition Carbon Offset Protocol (April 22, 2021), Environmental Law Reporter, Vol. 52, No. 11, 2022, analyzes “the viability of an offset protocol that credits farms for transitioning from raising livestock to growing crops, based on the difference in emissions between these operations.” The article looks at how farm transitions can provide a model for adapting existing food production infrastructures to be more just and sustainable and “finds that a livestock-to-plants farm transition project can satisfy all of the criteria for offset protocols, and provides a preliminary methodology to calculate the emission reductions associated with a farm transition.”
[To accompany Academic Update "Article Examines Supply-Side Farm Transitions" from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 167.]