Post-Conference In-depth Learning Sessions
Thursday 29 October 2015
Registration and morning coffee for both sessions is at 08.30 and sessions will conclude at 17.00. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided. Choose between:
In-depth Learning Session A:
Assessing the regulatory impact of climate change on industry and business to implement effective mitigation and abatement
This interactive learning session will assess the regulatory and compliance imperatives for greenhouse gas mitigation and climate change. Senior managers in charge of sustainability, carbon policy, climate and environment will explore the nature, scope and breadth of the national, state and regional regulatory landscape. They will examine the underpinnings for compliance, management and governance, as well as the implications for organisational planning and climate strategy. They will discuss the development of a consolidated framework in which boards and executive managers can develop a robust approach to climate change adaptation governance and climate change strategy.
Key topics and takeaway skills/benefits:
- Examine climate change regulations landscape and evaluate the frameworks for compliance and governance
- Leverage effective community engagement and consultation and examine the linkages between social licence and abatement to drive effective external stakeholder engagement
- Understand how to secure environmental approval, implement management and rehabilitation in a carbon abatement framework to strengthen an effective abatement strategy
- Evaluate the potential impact of post Paris abatement commitments and integrating the strategies for climate change into the organisational plan
Session Facilitators:
Julia Trafford
Director
EMI Partners
Samantha Hepburn
Research Director
Deakin Law School
Director
EMI Parners
Chris Leptos
Senior Advisor
EMI Partners
In-depth Learning Session B:
Developing a multi-pronged, multi-dimensional strategy for land management for GHG abatement
This full day session has been designed specifically for operations, strategy and environment managers in organisations with a large land base and for departments developing policy for them. It will examine the relationship between land management and climate change and the development, adaptation and mitigation policies to reduce their impact on emissions. Against this backdrop the participants then examine and learn the strategies for land management and mitigation of climate impacts and analyse the economic opportunities and mechanisms for agriculture and forestry abatement. Participants work on a multi-pronged, multi-dimensional that integrates emerging trends and emerging innovations in agricultural and forest abatement strategies.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Assess the commercial opportunities and spatial priorities for carbon sequestration and biodiversity restoration through biodiverse carbon plantings
- Learn how to maximise the earning opportunities offered by bio-sequestration and carbon farming initiatives
- Model agricultural emissions, landscape carbon sequestration potential and the value of agricultural production
- Assess the economic viability of carbon planting and the economic analyses to identify areas of potentially profitable land for forest abatement
- Construct the economic model and the underlying input assumptions for costs and revenues
- Run a suite of scenarios on areas of land identified as being economically viable or as “areas of opportunity” – developing the social and market factors that test the sensitivity of model assumptions
- Analyse the ERF and the Carbon Farming initiative and the opportunities for future engagement in the carbon markets
Session Facilitator:
Phil Polglase
Former Head of Agriculture and Forest Ecosystems – Eco Sciences Division
CSIRO