Soil Carbon Basics- Understanding soil carbon opportunities in your region

Soil Carbon Basics Webinar

Can’t pick your carbon from your cations? Getting into a quandary over clays? Wondering about the potential for soil carbon as a climate solution or cash ‘crop’?

If you have ever wondered how sequestration of carbon in soil works, or what opportunities exist for you to generate saleable credits from storing carbon in soils, or what other benefits increasing soil organic carbon might offer, this webinar is for you.

Join NRM Regions Australia on Tuesday 5 July from 2:30-4:15pm AEST to hear from our panel of experts on how to get the carbon into soils – and to unpack the potential for keeping it there.

The webinar will address the following topics:

• What is soil organic carbon and how can we keep it?

Associate Professor Beverley Henry from Queensland University of Technology

• Where soil carbon can be stored – sequestration potential across Australia.

Sam Duncan, Chief Executive Officer, FarmLab

• Soil carbon credits – understanding the life cycle of a soil carbon project under the Emissions Reduction Fund soil carbon method

Luke Signor, Assistant Manager – Savanna, Agriculture and Soil, the Clean Energy Regulator

• Perspectives at ground level – understanding a farmer’s experience of running a soil carbon project

David Allen, farmer from the Corangamite region in south-western Victoria

This session is targeted at regional NRM organisation staff with some general knowledge of carbon farming, but anyone with an interest in soil carbon is welcome to attend.

About our speakers

Associate Professor Beverley Henry from Queensland University of Technology

Beverley Henry has been involved in research, policy and industry roles across agriculture and land use sectors for 30 years. Her work has largely been in the areas of climate change, climate variability and environmental management, including in greenhouse gas and carbon credit accounting and monitoring. Beverley is the co-chair of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the ‘4 per 1000 Initiative for Food Security and Climate’.

Sam Duncan Chief Executive Officer, FarmLab

Sam is a passionate advocate for sustainable agriculture. A lover of the outdoors and an Air Force veteran of 12 years, he founded FarmLab in 2016 with the hypothesis that if farmers had better soil data, they could better manage soil carbon. Since then, FarmLab has evolved into a sustainability company, helping farmers and their consultants collect and measure the environment using technology.

Luke Signor- Assistant Manager in the Savanna, Agriculture and Soil Carbon Credits team at the Clean Energy Regulator

Luke’s primary role is the facilitation and regulation of soil carbon projects registered under the Emissions Reduction Fund. This includes managing the registration, crediting and variation of any projects in the soil carbon space.

David Allen – Soil Carbon Farmer, south west Victoria

David runs a beef, wool and cropping farm that has been in the family for 116 years. David has been involved in Landcare for around 30 years, and are currently running a soil carbon project on their farm. David’s property is a McDonalds Flagship Farm – the only one in Australia.