Pathway 8.

Non-Carbon Dioxide Climate Pollutants → Nitrous Oxide

8.4.3 Nitrous Oxide in Cap and Trade Systems

LPDD 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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Alberta’s Cap and Trade Program

Jurisdiction: Foreign

Allows offset credits for reductions of nitrous oxide and other GHGs from agricultural sources, and has developed an offset protocol for estimating nitrous oxide reduction.

EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Jurisdiction: Foreign

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

California Emissions Trading Scheme

Jurisdiction: State Legislatures

Covers nitrous oxide emissions from power plants, nitric acid facilities, and transportation fuels.

New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme Agricultural Reporting Requirement

Jurisdiction: Foreign

Requires agricultural sources to report emissions, although it has not yet established any cap on emissions from these sources.

EPRI Report, Creating Greenhouse Gas Emissions Offsets by Reducing Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Agricultural Crop Production

Jurisdiction: Congress, States and State Governments

A scientifically robust, straightforward, readily implementable, and widely adoptable N2O emissions reduction offsets methodology that can be used by farmers to create GHG emissions offsets under multiple existing offsets standards.

Report, Nitrogen Management Project Protocol

Jurisdiction: Congress, States and State Governments

Provides guidance on how to quantify, monitor, and verify greenhouse gas emission reductions from improving nitrogen use efficiency in crop production.