The document summarizes Denmark's efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture to meet its 2020 target of a 20% reduction from 2005 levels. Key efforts include improving production efficiency, plant breeding, changing crop types, environmental regulations on manure storage and handling, reducing cultivated organic soils, and support for wetlands and biogas plants. Looking to 2030 targets, Denmark proposes an EU-wide agricultural emissions target and allowing land use and forestry activities to count toward agriculture sector goals.

1. The Danish way to
reduce greenhouse
gas emissions from
agriculture
Nordic Agriculture facing
Climate Change – Turku
Finland
Head of Division Kim Holm
Boesen
28 July 2016

2. Disposition
• Status on DK - 2020 target for non-ETS
• Production efficiency improvements
• Plant breeding and crop change
• Environmental legislation and
regulation
• Land use change and others
• The 2030 – target
• The Land-sector pillar
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3. 2020 reduction target
for Denmark is 20 %
compared to 2005
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20.0
25.0
30.0
35.0
40.0
45.0
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Mio.tonCO2-e
Year
Non-ETS emissions 2005-2020, mio. ton CO2-e
Emissions mio. ton CO2-e Emission target 2020

4. 1990
Energy: 44 %
Transport: 14
Agriculture: 20 %
Other: 22 %
2020
Energi: 25 %
Transport: 29 %
Agriculture: 27 %
Other: 19 %
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37 %
22 %
22 %
20 %
Share of total greenhousegas emissions in
Denmark 2013
Energy sector Transport sector Agriculture Other

5. Climate efficiency in the Danish husbandry
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0.300
0.400
0.500
0.600
0.700
0.800
0.900
1990 2005 2014
kgCO2-eq/litremilk
Year
Dairy Cattle
Average
EU
0
200
400
600
800
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1400
1600
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2000
1990 2005 2014
kgCO2-eq/head
Year
Non-Dairy Cattle
Average
EU
0
50
100
150
200
250
1990 2005 2014
kgCO2-eq/head
Year
Pigs
Average
EU
0
50
100
150
200
250
1990 2005 2014
kgCO2-eq/head
Year
Sheep
Average
EU

6. Climate efficiency in the Danish
agricultural production
• Denmark has the EU-average lowest
CO2 eq. per kilo milk.
• With regard to beef, Denmark has the
second lowest CO2 eq. per kilo. beef
in EU.
• On pork Denmark is number seven on
the list of low emission per kg. meat.
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7. Plant breeding and change in production
systems
• Since 1980, the Danish area of maize
has increased from a few hundred
hectares to around 200.000 hectares.
Climate change
• Since year 2000, the Danish area of
wine grapes has increased from 10
hectares to 80 hectares.
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8. Environmental legislation and regulation
Climate gas reduction spill over from
environment measurements:
• BAT – rules on stables.
• Storage of manure – capacity and
spreading and handling rules.
• Water Environment Plan I – III.
• Catch crops.
• Reduced nitrogen norms.
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9. Set aside, land use change and others
measures
• History – band on field burn of straw
• Steady decrease in arable land.
• More manure goes though a biogas
plant.
• Less cultivation of organogene soil (– in
1990 112.175 hectares, in 2014 78.606
hectares).
• A RDP-support scheme to lay out wet
lands for denitrification and phosphor
catch.
• A RDP-support scheme to take high
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10. The 2030 - target
• Can have large implikations:
According to the Commission's Joint
Research Centre, emissions reductions in
agriculture of 19 percent across the EU
could lead to decreases in beef, milk,
cereal and pig production.
For beef specifically, the EU27 decrease is
estimated at almost 20 percent. For many
member states, including Denmark, the
drop will be even steeper.
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11. Danish proposal: Land-sector pillar
EU-wide measures, a single target for
agricultural emissions at the EU-level
would ensure that cost-effective potentials
are exploited across the EU and minimize
distortion of competition.
LULUCF activities related to agriculture
should count towards targets for the
agricultural sector. This would allow
farmers to use a wider range of cost-
effective instruments.
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