Carbon Trading:  Market Opportunities for Agriculture

 

Sponsors: Environmental Services, Inc. Florida Farm Bureau Federation Highlands County Economic Development Council EcoAsset Solutions-Lykes Bros. University of Florida/IFAS

 

Carbon Trading: Market Opportunities for Agriculture

Goals:

• Get the tools and approaches for understanding where carbon is in your enterprise, and how to ‘decarbonize’ the supply chain effectively.
• Understand the array of technologies available to facilitate carbon measurement, where they’re useful, and how much internal expertise they require to get the results you need.
• Find out just how far you should go: how much depth, breadth, and precision you require in order to use your CO2 measurement the way you want it.
• See how these benchmarking tools can be used to compare yourself to similar companies, and find out about the scenario-building tools that rank carbon reduction strategies based on cash and carbon savings.

Agenda:

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Video 1

Video 2

9:00 – 9:15 Registration & Sign in

9:15 -9:30 Welcome and Introductions Dr. John C. Alleyne, (University of Florida)

9:30 – 10:00 Carbon Resources Management in theAgricultural Industry

Dr. Clyde Fraise, (University of Florida)

10:00 – 10:45 The Basics of Greenhouse Gas Accounting: What You Need to Do

Sandra Kling, (Chief Environmental Scientist)

10:45- 11:00 Break

11:00 – 11:45: Carbon Sequestration from Forest Management: Opportunities for Landowners

Scott A. Sager, (Environmental Services, Inc.)

11:45 -12:00 Review and Questions

12:00 -12:30 Lunch

12:30 – 1:00 Carbon Trading: Markets and Policy

Andrew Walmsey, (Florida Farm Bureau Federation)

1:00 – 1:30 Biochar From Solid Wastes -Turning Trash Into Treasure

Dr. Bin Gao, (University of Florida)

1:30 – 2:00 Legal and Tax Issues of CarbonCredit Training

Michael Minton & Christine Weingart

(Dean, Mead, Minton & Zwemer)

2:00 Questions, Discussion, Wrap Up

Highlands County Extension is a cooperative service of the Highlands County Board of County Commissioners and the University of Florida. The Institute of Food and Agricultural Science (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A.&M. University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating.