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What’s with all these floods? See presentations from renowned experts on how climate change is causing more frequent and intense flooding. Followed up by farmers sharing the impacts on them, their farm, businesses, families, and communities.

IPCC Lead Authors Professor Brendan Mackey and Kevin Hennessy will walk through the science behind the weather events and explain how climate change is making flooding worse in rural and regional Australia. Farmers Chloe Fox and Oscar Pearse will also tell their stories.

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Let's talk about methane!
Often when the conversation turns to methane, people immediately think of cow burps. But what impact do coal and gas fugitive emissions have on our climate? Are they being properly accounted for?
And what does Australia signing the Global Methane Pledge mean for farmers? What does reducing methane emissions look like in practice?

We heard from Dr Sabina Assan, author of report Australia's coal mines can deliver two-thirds of methane cuts, and Margaret Jewell, MLA CN30 manager, about the impact of methane on climate targets and the possibilities for methane reduction in agriculture.

Dr Sabina Assan
Sabina joined Ember in 2022 as a Coal Mine Methane Analyst, raising the profile of coal mine methane and promoting the technologies and policies to measure and reduce these emissions. She has over five years experience in the environmental sector, including work in measuring fugitive methane emissions from anthropogenic sites in Europe. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de L’Environnement, and holds an MSci in Physics. Sabina recently lead a report on the impact of fugitive emissions from coal mines on Australia's climate targets. https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/tackling-australias-coal-mine-methane-problem/

Dr Margaret Jewell
Margaret is MLA’s Carbon Neutral 2030 (CN30) Manager. She is an Agricultural Scientist with a PhD in plant genetics and 10+ years experience in intensive and extensive agriculture. Margaret is committed to ensuring that Australian agriculture can prosper while remaining sustainable and contributing to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. https://www.mla.com.au/research-and-development/Environment-sustainability/carbon-neutral-2030-rd/

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Australia is on the cusp of one of the biggest energy system investments in our history with the roll-out of renewables, but farming communities are often being overlooked.

View our launch recording of our landmark report, Farm Powered: Opportunities for regional communities in the renewable energy boom, which lays out a plan for farming communities to participate in and benefit from the rollout of renewable energy.

You will hear from the report author, Karin Stark, followed by a discussion facilitated by Dr Fiona Davis with Karin and Professor Ross Garnaut.

Authored by Karin, together with Andy Bray and Kate Healey (RE Alliance), and Neil Gibbs (Online Power), Farm Powered identifies key policy solutions, including incentivising on-farm renewables, fixing the distribution network to make it work for farming communities, support for ‘agrivoltaics’, and ensuring farming communities can fairly share the benefits of transmission line infrastructure.

This recording was taken on 11 October 2022.

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A new emissions reduction target of 43% by 2030 is set to pass the Senate in coming weeks. The Australian Government has also noted their intention to sign onto the Global Methane Pledge, a shared goal to reduce global methane emissions 30% by 2030.
But what does that mean for Australia’s farmers? What impacts, if any, should farmers be expecting?
How is that different from the red meat sector’s carbon neutral by 2030 goal? Or Australian Pork’s net zero by 2025? Or the majority of states having a 50% reduction by 2030 target?

In this webinar, What do emissions reduction targets mean for farmers?, is your opportunity to find out the answers to these questions any others relating to the new emissions targets.

In this webinar, What do emissions reduction targets mean for farmers?, you'll hear from Polly Hemming, the Australia Institute, and Liam Walsh, Climateworks Centre, explain the impacts and opportunities of these policies for farmers.

This is an exciting first step, but more needs to be done. This webinar is to help people understand what the new target means for individual farmers and the broader Australian community, as well as how these new numbers interact with other emissions targets.

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Community bonds and networks are integral to community resilience in the face of climate disasters. In this webinar hosted by the National Landcare Network and Farmers for Climate Action, we explore how networks respond to catastrophe, be it saving lives, maintaining mental health or reviving biodiversity.

In this webinar we shine the spotlight on the flood-ravaged Northern Rivers to explore how networks can both strengthen and fracture during times of climate crisis. We hear from clinical psychologist Dr Rob Gordon, who has worked in disaster recovery since Ash Wednesday in 1983, about the recovery journey. We also hear from Landcare Coordinator Emma Stone who is deep in the early flood recovery stage in the Northern Rivers, activating her local Landcare community and forging partnerships to build resilience.

This webinar explores how building place-based community networks, such as Landcare and Farmers For Climate Action groups, can help prepare surge capacity for times of disaster.  We also explore how self-care, community care and connection to country can improve mental health outcomes on the long road to recovery.

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Farmers for Climate Action recently travelled across the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, where we met with nearly 80 farmers and supporters. It was so exciting to see the widespread support for climate action in the Goulburn Valley, and to start talking about actions we could take together locally to secure meaningful climate solutions!

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Are you thinking about preparing for your future on the land? Or are you interested in what is happening in the farming sector?

Our Climate Services for Agriculture (CSA) workshop, in partnership with the Bureau of Meteorology, hosted an event for farmers to have a say in designing climate services that will help Australian farms and communities prepare for the future.

The Future Drought Fund’s CSA program aims to support the Australian agricultural sector and regional communities to build resilience to future drought and climate risks. The Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO are developing this tool to help farmers anticipate what future climate in their region might look like, how it could impact production of key commodities and what can be done to prepare.

They have developed the tool so far with input from farmers in a number of pilot regions – and want to continue the conversation to make sure the tool is practical and can make a real difference.

Lynette (Bureau of Meteorology) will be presenting the seasonal outlook features of the Climate Services for Agriculture tool, whilst Carly (CSIRO) will be presenting the past and future climate projections.

This event was held via Zoom on 10 March 2022.

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