One common element in many voluntary and regulatory carbon markets to date has been the inclusion of emissions offsets … measure farmers' willingness to change tillage practices to supply carbon offsets by estimating their willingness to accept …

, the CPRS is liable to more profoundly affect farming systems, especially if agriculture is included in the scheme. The … impacts of the CPRS on agriculture are mostly conditional on: the amount of free permits allocated to agriculture, the value … of trees as carbon sinks, the extent of pass-through of CPRS-related costs onto agriculture and emission permit prices …

If agriculture is included in an Australian emissions trading scheme then it may face from 2015 at the earliest, a …, are identified with the implication that agriculture may be able to cost-effectively offset its emissions, as well as some …