Oct 2021- Making Sense of Markets for Ecosystem Services
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