Forum 1: Land Management, Agriculture and Forestry

The first of the public forums for the Garnaut Climate Change Review was held on 17 August 2007 in Melbourne. It focused on the implications that climate change will have for agriculture, forestry and land management. The forum also examined how different agriculture sectors would be affected by climate change, how management of soil, fertilisers or livestock could help to tackle climate change, and whether agriculture and forestry could be part of an emissions trading scheme.

This forum has now concluded. Slides from the various presenters are available on this page.

The Garnaut Review Secretariat invited interested parties to make submissions in response to the issues raised in this paper. All submissions have been made available on the Review website. Click here to view submissions.
For more information please see the Introductory Note by Prof Ross Garnaut (PDF, 83kb).

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Time	Programme	Papers	Slides
09.00	Registration	-	-
09.15	Welcome and overview Professor Ross Garnaut, Garnaut Review	-	-
09.30	The abatement challenge for agriculture Dr Richard Eckard, The University of Melbourne and Department of Primary Industries, VIC	Discussion Paper (PDF, 108kb)	Presentation (PDF, 2,097kb)
10.00	Climate change impacts on agriculture Dr Mark Howden, CSIRO	-	Presentation (PDF, 2,917kb)
10.30	Carbon sequestration from improved land management: amounts and uncertainties Dr Richard Harper, Forest Products Commission, WA	-	Presentation (PDF, 4,866kb)
11.00	Emissions from land clearing The Hon Craig Wallace MP, Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Water	-	-
11.30	Savannah management Paul Purdon, Department of Natural Resources, Environment and the Arts, NT	Discussion Paper (PDF, 482kb)	Presentation (PDF, 1,817kb)
12.00	BREAK
12.30	KEYNOTE SPEAKER Joachim von Braun Director-General, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA Competition between energy and food production for agricultural land and its impacts on commodity prices	Discussion Paper (PDF, 23kb)	Presentation (PDF, 1,326kb)
13.15	Emissions Trading Scheme- possibilities for forestry and agriculture Suzie Kerr, Director and Senior Fellow, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, New Zealand	-	Presentation (700kb)
13.45	Panel discussion Gerry Leach, National Farmers Federation Dr Don Gunasekera, Australia Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics Andrew Rouse, World Wildlife Fund Patricia Caswell, Victorian Association of Forest Industries Simon Ramsay, Victorian Farmers Federation	-	-
14.45	Concluding Remarks Professor Ross Garnaut, Garnaut Review	-	-
15.00	CLOSE	-	-