Biodiversity in agriculture: maximising opportunities for your business

Is there a financial return – not just an environmental benefit – for farmers from building biodiversity?

Emerging and existing opportunities to boost farm business bottom lines by improving biodiversity will be explained in an upcoming Landcare Agriculture webinar.

This free webinar on Biodiversity in Agriculture: Maximising Opportunities for Your Business, on 6 November, 2024, at 1pm (AEDT – NSW), will provide participants with a greater understanding of biodiversity, natural capital accounting systems and emerging environmental market opportunities and is part of an ongoing series to build knowledge about natural capital accounting and biodiversity. It will provide participants with a greater understanding of how biodiversity changes are measured and how accounting systems work.

It will provide participants with a greater understanding of natural capital accounting systems.

Five biodiversity specialists, covering science, emerging opportunities, on-farm management and understanding measurement systems, will share their knowledge. The webinar presenters are:

Webinar speakers are:

• Professor Hugh Possingham, former Queensland Chief Scientist and current Chief Scientist for Accounting for Nature and Chief Councillor of the Biodiversity Council. Prof. Possingham has research interest in environmental markets and will share insights into new markets and the challenges of quantifying biodiversity.
• Dr Amanda Hansson, Capacity Building & Advisory Manager at Accounting for Nature, has been upskilling producers as part of the Landcare Agriculture Natural Capital Accounting Benchmarking Project. Dr Hansson will provide practical guidance on using environmental accounting systems.
• Bjorn Everts brings 18 years of experience leading high-impact initiatives across conservation, nature-based solutions to climate change, and renewable energy. He is currently the Head of Nature at GreenCollar, where his role focuses on the development of the voluntary biodiversity credit markets in Australia and overseas. Bjorn will share information on current and developing biodiversity markets and how to participate in them.
• Catherine Riordan is a director in the Nature Repair Market Branch of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, is a lawyer by training and has experience in State, Federal and local governments and working for several regulators. She will talk about government policy and the key implications for managing on-farm biodiversity.
• Melinee Leather, a Queensland Cattle producer and owner of Leather Cattle Co, a grassfed and EU certified humane cattle enterprise from Central Queensland. She was recently awarded a Success Through Collaboration Award at the Global Conference on Sustainable Beef in Punta del Este, Uruguay. This accolade is awarded to the business that best exemplifies the foundational principles and goals of Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef and drives collaborative efforts to advance beef sustainability. Melinee will share her learnings from firsthand participation in biodiversity markets.

There will be a chance for participants to ask questions and to receive links to further explain the information shared.

This webinar, and a follow up webinar on 5 December 2024, Carbon in Agriculture: Understanding ecosystem opportunities for business, are part of an ongoing Landcare Agriculture series designed to build knowledge around environmental market opportunities, and will provide the latest information on environmental market opportunities.