Presentations (Past)
Dr Andy Reisinger
28/03/17
Dr Andy Reisinger: Agricultural emissions: their role in climate change Synopsis Andy Reisinger, the Deputy Director of the NZAGRC, spoke to attempt to clarify how much livestock actually contributes to global warming. It turns out that this...
Dr Cecile de Klein
28/03/17
Dr Cecile deKlein: Progress with NZ nitrous oxide technologies The NZAGRC-PGgRc nitrous oxide programme incudes two major pipelines for discovery and development of solutions to mitigate on-farm nitrous oxide emissions. Download slides...
Dr Harry Clark
28/03/17
Dr Harry Clark: Realities, magic potions & clairvoyance Synopsis Harry Clark, NZAGRC Director, opened the afternoon session of the conference with a talk about “realities, magic potions and clairvoyance”. Harry...
Dr Jan Wright
28/03/17
Dr Jan Wright: Understanding New Zealand In 2016 Jan released a report titled Climate change and agriculture: Understanding the biological greenhouse gases, in which she urged New Zealanders to work together and start tackling the...
Dr Peter Janssen
28/03/17
Dr Peter Janssen: Progress with NZ methane technologies The NZAGRC-PGgRc research programme for reducing on-farm methane emissions from ruminant livestock is made up for four pipelines and this presentation discusses progress made to date...
Dr Stewart Ledgard
28/03/17
Dr Stewart Ledgard: Life Cycle Assessment - International comparisons Synopsis Stewart Ledgard, AgResearch, spoke next on Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and considering the total resource use or environmental emissions of a product from...
Dr Suzi Kerr
28/03/17
Suzi Kerr: The role of land use change Synopsis Suzi Kerr, a Senior Fellow at Motu and an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University, then spoke about the role of land use change. She opened with the fact that on farm solutions are not going...
Francsesca Eggleton
28/03/17
Francesca Eggleton: Fonterra's approach to climate change Synopsis Fonterra’s Francesca Eggleton gave a dairy industry perspective on climate change. The organisation is expecting global warming to have an impact on its supply chain...
Louis Schipper
28/03/17
Professor Louis Schipper: Can we build and maintain soil carbon in pastures? Small increases or decreases in soil carbon stocks can result in large changes in carbon dioxide of the atmosphere. Maintaining or enhancing soil carbon is also...
Mark Sinclair
28/03/17
Mark Sinclair: Agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation - the international context The adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change in December 2015 was a historic achievement, but it is by no means the end of the road. Negotiators are...
Sam McIvor
28/03/17
Sam McIvor: Beef & sheep industry perspectives Synopsis Sam McIvor, CEO of Beef + Lamb NZ, covered off the sheep and beef industry’s perspectives in this area. He highlighted that farmers have made significant changes over the...
1000 Sir Professor Peter Gluckman, Prime Minister?s Chief Science Advisor
07/05/15
Sir Peter opened the conference with a stark reminder that “while many would prefer not to have to address the challenge of climate change, we do not have that luxury”. He highlighted that it’s clear that we need to take...
1015 David Wansbrough, Director Resource Policy (Ministry for Primary Industries)
07/05/15
David presented an overview of New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 and a breakdown of those from the agricultural sector. He highlighted that the total greenhouse gases have been largely stable since 2005, mainly due to...
1035 Andy Reisinger, NZAGRC Deputy Director (International)
07/05/15
Andy began with a very clear message that the global community needs to take action now in order to limit warming to two degrees. “If agriculture doesn’t take any effective action, we would have to actively remove carbon dioxide from...
1055 Jo Tyndall, New Zealand's Climate Change Ambassador
07/05/15
Jo provided a fascinating insight into the global political landscape in the GHG and climate change area. At the end of this year, 40,000 delegates are expected in France and the hope is that a new global agreement will be finalised. With...
1115 Rick Pridmore, Strategy and Investment Leader for Sustainability (DairyNZ)
07/05/15
Rick provided the conference delegates with an overview of the New Zealand investment landscape for reducing agricultural greenhouse gases. He highlighted that New Zealand is putting in a great deal of effort into reducing agricultural greenhouse...
1150 Pete Smith, Professor of Soils & Global Change (Aberdeen University, UK)
07/05/15
Pete spoke on managing the demand for food in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He demonstrated that despite policies and global agreements, greenhouse gas emissions are still increasing and that agriculture, forestry and other...
1315 Peter Janssen, Principal Scientist (AgResearch)
07/05/15
Peter gave an interesting overview of how ruminants produce methane and the strategies that are being investigated for reducing, or even eliminating, this methane. Feeds which lead to reduced methane production have been studied and the...
1340 John McEwan, Principal Scientist (AgResearch)
07/05/15
John provided further detail about the low methane emitting sheep breeding programme. There is excellent rationale for this strategy given that for most farmed species (plants and animals) genetics contributes around 50% of the farm system...
1405 Tim McAllister, Principal Scientist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
07/05/15
Tim presented an international perspective on the methane research being conducted globally. There is research being conducted to investigate both: (i) technologies to reduce emissions and ii) ways to increase efficiency across the...
1430 Cecile de Klein, Principal Scientist (AgResearch)
07/05/15
Cecile provided an overview of the nitrous oxide research being conducted in New Zealand, with a focus on plant and animal interventions. Cecile reminded the audience that animal urine is by far the largest source of nitrogen in the New...
1525 Frank Kelliher, Principal Scientist (AgResearch) & Professor (Lincoln University)
07/05/15
Frank's presentation covered the New Zealand work on soil carbon. He explained the concept that, like planting trees, increasing soil carbon stocks can “offset” greenhouse gas emissions and that if New Zealand could...
1550 Keith Goulding (Rothamsted Research, UK)
07/05/15
Keith provided an international perspective on nitrous oxide and soil carbon research. With respect to N2O, he highlighted work on investigating the genes related to nitrous oxide emissions and noted that there is one clear...
1615 Robyn Dynes, Principal Scientist (AgResearch)
07/05/15
Following on from earlier conclusions that we shouldn't look at different aspects of a system in isolation, Robyn outlined her team's plans for studying the "business unit of New Zealand farming" - the whole farm. The...
