Recording of a webinar held on Tuesday 3 August 2021.

This webinar, the third in a series hosted by ATSE’s Agriculture and Food Forum, will explore the investment needs and technological opportunities to achieve carbon neutral agriculture by 2050.

Climate change mitigation and adaptation is a top priority for the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) in 2021. Australia’s agricultural industries will need to develop and implement a suite of new technologies to achieve carbon neutrality. Governments and industries will need to make considerable R&D investment to support new technologies, to support ‘indirect’ investments made by farmers through their R&D levies. Implementing technologies on farms will also need considerable investment, although healthy returns may be realised for farmers and investors as many new technologies offer opportunities to improve productivity and possibly increase market premiums.

In this webinar, Alexandra Gartmann, Bendigo Bank Group Executive Partnerships, Marketing & Corporate Affairs and CEO of the Rural Bank will detail how agricultural lenders and banks view their agriculture technology investments. She will discuss what the banking regulator will require of banks in demonstrating their understanding of climate risk to their portfolios and investments, and highlight some of the steps Bendigo Bank and Rural Bank are taking to support adaptation and mitigation by agricultural clients and their own operations.

Peter Grace, Professor of Global Change at QUT, will detail the methodologies, challenges and potential returns of increasing soil carbon in Australia’s cropping systems (and reducing losses through emissions) as an on-farm example of the win-win benefits to be realised from making appropriate investments in emerging agricultural technologies.

SPEAKERS
Alexandra Gartmann
Group Executive Partnerships, Marketing and Corporate Affairs & CEO Rural Bank  

Professor Peter Grace 
Professor of Global Change, Queensland University of Technology 

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