A Climate for Change: Opportunities for Carbon-Efficient Farming

| Date |
Venue |
| Thursday, 24 and Friday, 25 June 2010 |
The Mansion House, Dublin |
Publications
Book of Abstracts
A Climate for Change - Book of Abstracts (1.2MB PDF Format)
TResearch Articles
Greenhouse Gas Research Highlights (2.5MB, PDF Format)
Proceedings
| Session 1 - A Climate for Change |
Welcome Minister Brendan Smith TD |
GHG emissions from agriculture: the story so far (834KB, PDF Format) Mark Gibson |
Squaring the circle: reconciling the paradox of emissions reductions and food security (256KB, PDF Format) John Gilliland |
Current Policy & Future Direction (39KB, PDF Format) Owen Ryan |
Carbon leakage from agriculture: a NZ perspective (433KB, PDF Format) Hayden Montgomery |
The economy wide impact of proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture (362KB, PDF Format) Cathal O'Donoghue |
| Session 2 - Counting carbon: inventories and leakage |
Mitigation of agricultural GHG emissions (791KB, PDF Format) Frank O’Mara |
Irish inventories: can we account for efficiencies and uncertainties (510KB, PDF Format) Philip O'Brien |
Policy or the environment? IPCC vs. LCA (134KB, PDF Format) Donal O'Brien |
Danone: our contribution to nature Vincent Maurice |
The way forward Gerry Boyle |
| Session 3 - Mitigation through efficiency |
International overview (475KB, PDF Format) Chris Grainger |
Mitigation strategies for lower carbon dairy and beef production (816KB, PDF Format) Laurence Shalloo |
The role for N-efficiency in curbing N emissions (884KB, PDF Format) James Humphreys |
GHG balance of croplands
(954KB, PDF Format) Bob Rees |
The use of whole farm nutrient budgets in driving efficiency and mitigation (544KB, PDF Format) Oene Oenema |
| Session 4 - Land use 2020 |
Forests and climate change: linking science and policy (144KB, PDF Format)
Eugene Hendrick |
Growing returns: the role of land-use change in reducing GHG emissions (608KB, PDF Format)
Gary Lanigan |
The potential of SRC willow to reduce carbon emissions (3.2MB, PDF Format)
Alistair McCracken |
Carbon sequestration: implications for grassland systems (813KB, PDF Format) Mike Jones |