COe by 2030.
Farm accounts. The sector strategy for energy and industry allocates DKK 5 million in 2021 to
contribute to the development of climate accounts at farm level that will support a cost-effective
regulation of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, but a major research effort remains to be
done to facilitate the preparation of true and fair climate accounts at farm level.
Research. The Government has started ten research projects with a budget of DKK 90 million to
help identify future solutions for agriculture-related reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The fund-
ing comes from the climate research programme and is allocated for the period 2019-2021.
Development initiatives:
Greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector are currently not regulated in the EU but
have been left to the Member States with differentiated national reduction targets for the non-ETS
sectors. This reduces the incentive for climate friendly activities and entails challenges of carbon
leakage risks internally in the EU. At European level, the Government is therefore working for a
common European reduction commitment and strengthened regulation regulation of agriculture
and its LULUCF activities. The Government is working to ensure that the reform of the EU's com-
mon agricultural policy is used to support climate measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
in the agricultural sector.
A mission defined in the Government's green research strategy is the development of new tech-
nologies and solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from food and agricultural production.
To reduce the agricultural climate impact without just reducing agricultural production, it is neces-
sary to develop new technologies and solutions that can reduce the climate impact per unit pro-
duced.
Current research includes biorefining whereby biomass can be converted into biochar, oil and gas
through pyrolysis. The biochar is worked into the ground where the carbon bound in the biochar
degrades very slowly, thereby removing it from the atmosphere for many years. Subject to consid-
erable uncertainty, the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) assesses that carbon binding from
biochar has a technical reduction potential of up to 6 million tonnes of Cose a year. The Danish
Council on Climate Change assesses that a third of the 