Professor Richard Eckard

Richard is Professor and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre at the University of Melbourne.

His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture, managing extreme climate events and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate.

Here is his presentation

Graham Ross

Graham Ross is an entrepreneur and environmentalist with a world-leading focus on textile sustainability and innovation.

Graham is co-founder of BlockTexx, an Australian clean technology company that has developed patent pending technology to recover value from unwanted clothing through its separation of fibre technology (S.O.F.T.).

Graham's presentation is here

Tony Mahar - NFF

Tony comes from a farming background in south western Victoria and has worked in and around agriculture for the majority of his working life.

He has experience in working with global food manufacturers, major Australian agribusinesses and the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture. He was appointed NFF CEO in March 2016.

Here is Tony's presentation.

Richard is Professor and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre at the University of Melbourne.

His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture, managing extreme climate events and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate.

Richard is a science advisor to the Victorian, Australian, New Zealand, UK and EU governments, the International Livestock Research Institute and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy development in agriculture.

In 2021, Richard was named on the Reuters list of the world’s 1,000 most influential climate scientists and appointed as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Here is the presentation Richard delivered at the Cotton Collective.