We are pleased to present Towards a low-emissions future – a webinar series that replaces the 2020 New Zealand Agricultural Climate Change Conference, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 response.
Towards a low-emissions future comprises six one-hour webinars presented at weekly intervals via Zoom.
Speakers and topics from the original conference programme will feature in the series. Each webinar comprises up to three presentations (most are pre-recorded) followed by a live moderated Q&A session with the presenters.
To register, click the link beneath the webinar of interest in the programme below. Note, it is necessary to register for each webinar of interest individually, so that a Zoom link to connect to each session can be emailed to you.
Past webinars are posted below with a link to the video file (posted on YouTube).
We are working through the questions from each of the webinars and coordinating responses to each of them. The full record will be posted here as soon as they are available.
 
Past webinars
Webinar 1: Setting the direction


Presentations



Chair of session
Dr John Roche
Chief Science Advisor, Ministry for Primary Industries


Keynote Address: Setting the direction
Hon. Damien O'Connor
Minister for Agriculture 


Policy in practice: Where are we heading?
 
 


Forestry’s role in offsetting emissions
Julie Collins
Deputy Director-General, Te Uru Rākau



 
Questions & Answers -- coming soon
Webinar 2: Staying the course





Chair of session
Dr Andy Reisinger
 Ministry for the Environment


Keynote Address: Staying the course
Hon James Shaw
Minister for Climate Change 


New Zealand Climate Change Commission
Rod Carr
Chair of the New Zealand Climate Change Commission


He Waka Eke Noa: Joint Action Plan on Primary Sector Emissions
Michael Ahie
Chair of the He Waka Eke Noa Steering Group



 
Questions & Answers -- coming soon
Webinar 3: Perspectives from the land





Chair of session
Mark Aspin
Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium


Dairy
George Moss 
Farmer 


Beef & sheep
 Rick Burke
Farmer, Pukekauri 


Mixed
Craige MacKenzie
Farmer Owner, Greenvale Pastures



 
 Session 3 - Q&A.pdf (0.22MB)
Webinar 4: Knowing the numbers





Chair of session
Dr Harry Clark
 NZAGRC Director


Overseer: one of New Zealand’s on-farm tools
Caroline Read
Overseer Chief Executive


Step Change Project 
Dana Carver
DairyNZ


Dairy Industry update
Andrew Kempson
Fonterra


Beef and sheep Industry progress
Jeremy Baker
Beef + Lamb NZ


Measuring soil carbon stocks and stock changes: farm to national scale
Louis Schipper / Paul Mudge
University of Waikato / Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research



  4_Knowing the numbers_OverseerFM.pdf (1.83MB) 
Questions & Answers -- coming soon
Webinar 5: State of science





Chair of session
Dr Sinead Leahy
 NZAGRC



Methane Inhibitor Strategies for Pasture Based Farming Systems

Dr Nicola Walker
Principal Scientist, DSM Nutritional Products


Anti-methanogen vaccine
 Dr Peter Janssen
AgResearch 


Rolling out the low emissions breeding programme for sheep
Dr Suzanne Rowe
AgResearch



 
Questions & Answers -- coming soon
 
Registrations
 

Webinar 6: Global Perspective
Tuesday, 14 July, 9.30am-10.45am
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Chair of session
 Jeroen Dijkman
NZAGRC


International experience of moving to a low-emissions economy
 Lord Deben
Chair of UK Climate Change Commission 


Global supply and sustainability
Dr Jeremy Hill
Fonterra 


 International partnerships
  Hayden Montgomery
 Special Representative, Global Research Alliance



 
Question and answers -- coming soon