Thursday 23 March, 2022
Technology Precinct, Bentley
Over the course of a day farmers, consultants, researchers and scientists investigated three leading GHG emissions calculators for Western Australian cropping and broad-acre conditions through the grain supply chain, overlaying sustainability frameworks and certification requirements.
Insights from the emissions profiles of more than 25 Western Australian individually and corporate owned farms were explored to bring commercial grain industry sustainability perspectives to the climate resilience and low-carbon agriculture research already being conducted by DPIRD, Western Australian and other agricultural tertiary research initiatives.
Presentations include:
- Professor Richard Eckard, Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, University of Melbourne - "Australia's Decarbonising Progress Implications for Agriculture".
- Dr Cassandra Schefe, Program Manager, Cool Soils Initiative, Charles Sturt University
- Rob Waterworth, CEO Mullion Group (FlintPro is the natural capital intelligence platform commercializing partner for the CSIRO and Macquarie Viridis FarmPrint calculator.
- Elizabeth O'Leary, Head of Natural Assets, Macquarie Agriculture, Global Board Member Taskforce for Nature Related Financial Disclosure TNFD.
- Larissa Taylor, Director, Savoir Consulting, ESG, Sustainability, Food and Agribusiness.
- Ben White, Director, BMWhite and Research Director Kondinin Group
- Richard Brake, Richard Brake Consulting
- Mandy Curnow, DPIRD Senior Development Manager and lead on the Katanning Research Facility Carbon Neutral 2030
The full workshop can be viewed here.
Results of the workshop will be used by:
- Calculator developers to ground-truth systems functionality for Western Australian cropping conditions and achieve alignment with the national Australian Greenhouse Inventory Reporting requirements.
- DPIRD’s Low Carbon Futures initiative to support the Western Australian state government’s Sectoral Emissions Reduction Strategy for primary industries.
- Industry and representative RDC and CRC research organisations to support sustainability frameworks, certification, market access, traceability and GHG emissions measurement through the grain supply chain, for both bulk food and feed grain, and premium processed and branded carbon-neutral certified grain products.
- Growers and their advisors to measure and benchmark farm emissions and implement emissions reduction practice change at a farm level.