8.30 – Arrival and Registration                                                                                                      

9.00     Welcome

 Mr Greg Northover, President, Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups

9.05     Introduction

Chair - Ms Sarina Locke, ABC Rural Reporter

9.10     Keynote Address

Mr David Borthwick,CSM, Secretary, Commonwealth Department of the Environment, Water, Heratage and the Arts

Session 1       Climate Change

9.30     Climate Change Science 2008: Stronger Evidence but New Challenges

Professor Will Steffen, Director, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University

10.10   Agriculture in an even more sunburnt country: adapting to climate change.

Dr Mark Howden, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

10.50   Morning Tea

Session 2       Carbon Market

11.10   Emissions trading and how it works

Mr David Pearce, Director and Principal Policy Analyst, Centre for International Economics

Session 3       Farmers and Sequestration

11.50   Carbon Biosequestration: a new market for native vegetation restoration.

Dr David Freudenberger, Director Science and Major Projects, Greening Australia

12.30   Lunch

13.30   Voluntary Carbon Credits: a proposed visual methodology for accrediting landholders.

Mr John Lawrie, Catchment Co-ordinator – Slopes, Central West Catchment Management Authority

14.10   How soon will soil carbon be traded in Australia?

Mr Michael Kiely and Mrs Louisa Kiely, Woolgrowers, Mudgee District, Carbon Coalition against Global Warming

15.05   Afternoon Tea

15.25   Australian Greenhouse policy and agriculture: will the policy medicine be worse than the climate disease

Mr Mike Keogh, Executive Director, Australian Farm Institute

16.05   Agriculture and Climate Change:  opportuniyies and challanges

Dr Don Gunasekera, Chief Economist, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE)

16.45   Closing Remarks

Chair, Ms Sarina Locke

16.50   Seminar Close