The Carbon Market Institute (CMI)’s Carbon Farming Forum is the key industry event convening stakeholders across the supply chain of Australia’s carbon market and carbon farming industry. A decade after the passage of the Carbon Farming Initiative Act, carbon farming has matured to a significant new asset class with massive potential.
The Forum provides a platform for key stakeholders to gather, consider latest developments and progress key actions in CMI’s Carbon Farming Industry Roadmap.
This CMI member and invite only annual Forum is a unique and exclusive opportunity to meet representatives of State & Federal government agencies; Indigenous carbon industry and land management leaders; agricultural and natural resource management organisations; carbon project developers; agricultural, information and geo-spatial technology innovators; emissions intensive and other demand side corporate entities; as well as banks, financiers and other strategic advisers.
The 2021 event
The 2021 event will be presented as a virtual series consisting of four highly collaborative online sessions spread across two days, Fridays – 10th and 17th September 2021.
Building on the success and renown of previous forums, the 2021 series provides opportunities for commercial interaction and to workshop solutions to industry issues as well as progressing carbon market integrity, knowledge and capacity.
Four general overarching themes have been selected for the 2021 Zoom sessions – Boosting Supply, Integrity and Assurance, Co-Benefits and Natural Capital and Farming and Carbon – providing a framework for the plenaries and workshops. There has been escalating interest in carbon farming and co-benefits as well as growing initiatives in regenerative agriculture and carbon neutrality throughout the agricultural sector in Australia.
Speakers - more to be announced
David Parker
Chair, Clean Energy Regulator
Katie McRobert
General Manager, Australian Farm Institute
Andrew Macintosh
Associate Professor, Australian National University
Elizabeth O’Leary
Head of Agriculture, Macquarie Group
Gillian Mayne
Director, Land Restoration Fund
Tony Mahar
Chief Executive, National Farmer’s Forum
Virginia Malley
Review Panel Chair, Australian Carbon Industry Code of Conduct
Richard Eckard
Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, University of Melbourne
Ilona Millar
Partner, Baker & McKenzie
Kate Andrews
CEO, NRM Regions Australia
Charlie Prell
Chair, Farmers for Climate Action
Jenny Sinclair
Chief Science Officer, GreenCollar
Rayne van den Berg
Chief Financial Officer, Forico
Richard Heath
CEO, Australian Farm Institute
Alex Toone
Global Head of Commodities, Commonwealth Bank
Elisa de Wit
Partner and Head of Climate Change, Norton Rose Fulbright
Sue Ogilvy
Director, Integrated Futures
Stuart Austin
General Manager, Wilmot Cattle Co
John Connor
CEO, Carbon Market Institute
Jason Strong
Managing Director, Meat & Livestock Australia
Greg Noonan
Carbon Finance Advisor, CMI
Hon Meaghan Scanlon
Minister for Environment & Great Barrier Reef & Minister for Science & Youth Affairs, Queensland Government
Tom Penny
Head of Environment, Telstra
Lauren Drake
Director, Pollination
Eric Lawrence
Director, Macdoch Australia
Cissy Gore-Birch
Director, Indigenous Carbon Industry Network
Michael Barbara
Director, Business Development, New Forests
Raphael Wood
Managing Director, Market Advisory Group
Alexander Lewis
Commercial Manager, Tasman Environmental Markets
Louise Gavin
Communication & Engagement Manager, Remarkable NRM
Michaela Morris
Principal, Climate Change & Strategy, Ndevr Environmental
Tim Lane
National Client Manager – Commercial, Agribusiness & Advisory, Herron White Todd
Matthew Warnken
Managing Director, Agriprove
Robert Waterworth
CEO, Mullion Group
Adrian Ward
CEO, Accounting for Nature
Alannah Pentony
General Manager, Emissions Reduction, Department of Industry, Science, Energy & Resources
Marion Verles
CEO, SustainCERT
Megan Flynn
Partner, Pollination
Katharine Tapley
Head of Sustainable Finance, ANZ
Matthew Pryor
Partner, AgThentic Group
Rowan Foley
CEO, Aboriginal Carbon Foundation
Brendan Foran
CEO, Greening Australia
Ben Cole
Managing Director, Wide Open Agriculture
Mara Bun
President – Board, Australian Conservation Foundation
Founder & Venture Partner, Salmon Project
Melissa Sinclair
General Manager – Social Licence, Shared Value Partnerships & Impacts, APN Cape York
Neil Hereford
Chief Investment Officer, Greencollar
Page Perry
Manager, Land Restoration Fund, Queensland Department of Environment & Science
Skye Glenday
Co-CEO, Climate Friendly
Suzanne Thompson
CEO, Yumbangku Adoriginal Cultural Heritage & Tourism Development Corporation
Warren Flentje
Lead, Towards Net Zero Mission, CSIRO
Dr. Cathy Waters
Principle Research Scientist & Leader – Climate Research, NSW Department of Primary Industries
Dean Yibarbuk
Chair, Warddeken LM
Elizabeth Rose
Climate Change & Sustainability, EY
Emily Gerrard
Director, Comhar Group
Heidi Mippy
Director, Indigenous Carbon Industry Network
Jane Hutchinson
Executive Director, Pollination Foundation
Justin Merrell
Group Environment Director, Lion Group
Katie Hammer
Senior Project Manager – Natural Capital, ClimateWorks
Louise Robb
Regional Coordinator, SustainCERT by Gold Standard
Mark Wootton
Principal & Manager, Jigsaw Farms
Deputy Chair, Victorian Agriculture & Climate Change Council
Cathie Schnitzerling
Executive Producer, ABC – Landline
Georgie Aley
National Food & Agribusiness Sector Lead, KPMG
Graham Finlayson
Tuen Plains Queensland
Nadia Campbell
Goondicum Station, Monto – Queensland
Nathan Simpson
Binginbar Farm, Gollan, New South Wales
Sasha Treloar
Boothulla Station, Queensland
Event Partners
This is a CMI member and invite only Forum. Official invitations have been issued.
