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Oct 2021- Making Sense of Markets for Ecosystem Services

21 September 2021

Emerging Environmental Markets: October 14th, 2021

In this session we will focus on what will help with identification and management of opportunities and trends in emergent environmental markets.

Ian Mackenzie, UQ - The Drivers of Emerging Environmental Markets (presentation copy available here)

• Types and context of environmental markets
• Nature of environmental markets in Australia
• The reality now - eg China initiatives
• Lessons learned - what works and what does not
• Some examples from Granite Belt

Amelia Selles, DES - Environmental Impact & The role of Environmental Markets

• Voluntary vs compliance environmental markets, where do environmental offsets fit in
• Role of government
• Challenges and opportunities, what are we hearing?
• How do we better support environmental markets in Queensland?

Carole Sweatman, GreenCollar Group - Scale and Opportunity in the Real World

• What are the opportunities?
• Imagine this was a new major commodity
• How do we get ahead of the curve?
• How do we position ourselves now?
• Implications of market based apporaches to our organisation/community

Nigel Onley, Taroom Producer - Decision making factors and influences

• What considerations, what does a producer need to know for decisions?
• Impediments experienced - practices, natural resource, political, cultural?
• Opportunities realised: results

 

Listen to the audio from this event here. (Note: unfortunately the video recording failed to download)