This online Greenhouse Gas Seminar is designed to expand rural professionals’ understanding of climate change, why agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are important in New Zealand, how they can be estimated within the farm system, and how they can be reduced on different farms.

Experts from the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) and others will bring you the latest on:

• Setting the scene: why reduce emissions, New Zealand’s emissions profile, differences between absolute emissions and emissions intensity, long-lived and short-lived gases

• Policy settings: the Paris Agreement, Zero Carbon Act, Emissions Trading Scheme and pricing agricultural emissions at the farm level

• The latest science: where agricultural greenhouse gas emissions come from, how they can be reduced now and what technological solutions might be available in the coming years

• Farm-level issues: modelling mitigation approaches at the farm level and their likely economic impacts, including understanding the proposed pricing system

• Forestry: understanding how forestry can be used as an offset in the Emissions Trading Scheme and how sequestration might apply in the farm-level pricing system

• Soil carbon: how much do we have, how can we maintain or increase it

• Tools: what’s available to estimate on-farm emissions

The seminar is a great opportunity for rural professionals to expand their knowledge of on-farm greenhouse gases as well as being in a better position to have more informed discussions with the farmers they work with and support.

This event is funded by MPI

Registration

Please register to attend this event by clicking the "registration" button at the top of the page. Please note the content will be the same in each of the Greenhouse gas emission seminars.

Non-members wishing to attend must initially sign up as a new user (if they haven't done so before) via the registration button, then login to register. If you are having problems registering for this event, please email events@nzipim.co.nz

With a maximum of 30 people per seminar, spaces are limited so don’t miss out. (The event is open to non-NZIPIM members as well).

For more information, please contact events@nzipim.co.nz. The organisers reserve the right to cancel a seminar if registrations are low.

Please note that in attending this event, some of your information will be collected and anonymised to inform work done by MPI. The information collected will be data such as job roles or industries of attendees and summaries of the types of questions asked in the seminars. The seminars will not be recorded, and the anonymised information collected will not be used for any other purposes or provided to any other persons or organisations.