Join us on Monday the 14th of October 2024 at the RACV Club Melbourne for an engaging business luncheon as Professor Richard Eckard sorts the Wheat from the Chaff when it comes to Carbon Farming.
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Monday, 14 Oct 2024
12:00 – 2:00pm
RACV City Club, 501 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Two course lunch and beverages
Ticket sales for the business luncheon have now closed.
For further information please contact the Event Organiser at 03 5247 2901 or leadership@marcusoldham.vic.edu.au
Keynote Speaker – Professor Richard Eckard
Professorial Fellow, Dairy Industry
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences
Richard is Professor of Carbon Farming at the University of Melbourne and National program leader in the Carbon Research Centre for Net Zero Agriculture. His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture, managing extreme climate events and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate. He developed the first carbon accounting tools in Australia in 2001, these tools now form a national agreed standard in Australia for on farm carbon accounting; his research and expertise provided the science basis for the development of six carbon o set methods in Australia. Richard is a science advisor to the Victorian, Australian, New Zealand, Ireland, UK and EU governments, the International Livestock Research Institute and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy development in agriculture. In 2021, Richard was named on the Reuters list of the worldʼs 1,000 most influential climate scientists.