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International Focus for Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Issues

By / 21 November 2007

Top scientists and industry experts from over 28 countries will attend the third international Greenhouse Gases and Animal Agriculture Conference http://www.confer.co.nz/ggaa2007/index.html at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Christchurch from November 26-29.

Hosted by government, industry and scientific agencies in New Zealand and Australia the theme for GGAA07 is: “developing livestock systems for greenhouse and productivity benefits”. This is the third GGAA conference earlier ones having been held in Switzerland in 2005 and Japan in 2001.

The conference will be opened by GGAA President Professor J. Takahashi and will feature opening addresses from the Minister for Climate Change David Parker and David Ugalde from the Australian Greenhouse Office.

This year’s programme offers papers from acclaimed international researchers working in the field of agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation in New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Switzerland, USA, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, India and Brazil.

The conference will be followed on Friday November 30 by a workshop for farm consultants and others working in the field of on-farm education. This will focus on how best to communicate practical messages arising from the conference to farmers.

The New Zealand Government, in partnership with the Pastoral Greenhouse gas Research Consortium, has invested over $14m in scientific programmes aimed at reducing agricultural greenhouse gases since 2002.

New Zealand Conference Convenor Harry Clark says the work scientists are currently doing is vital for both industry and Government since both need to find cost-effective greenhouse gas mitigation outcomes as quickly as possible.

The conference is principally sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Australian Greenhouse Office, the Ministry for the Environment, AgResearch and the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium

For more information Contact:

Pamela Fleming: 04 905 8198 or 0274 575 677 or email: pam_alemap@yahoo.co.nz <mailto:pam_alemap@yahoo.co.nz> or

Allie Webber: 04 905 8594 or 021 465 678 or email:

alliewebber@paradise.net.nz <mailto:alliewebber@paradise.net.nz>

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