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Systems Perspective: Climate Resilience and Livestock Sustainability

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Ballyvaughan Suite
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

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Sponsored by Environmental Defence Fund

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This session focuses on a holistic understanding of livestock systems, integrating emissions, productivity, and climate resilience strategies.

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Session Sponsored by EDF

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Prof Frank Convery
Adjunct Professor
University College Dublin

Accelerating Climate Policy for Ruminant Farming – reflections on the imperatives of: credible metrics, incentives, innovation, and information that is convincing for consumers

2:15 PM - 2:40 PM
Ms Hattie McFadzean
Senior Sustainability Consultant
Promar International

Enhancing the Climate Resilience of UK Dairy Systems: Case Studies and Next Steps for the Sector

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Professor Jude Capper
Professor Of Sustainable Beef Production
Harper Adams University

You can’t mitigate what you don’t measure - quantifying baseline greenhouse gas emissions and key performance indicators from UK beef and sheep production via the ABP PRISM2030 programme

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Dr Taro Takahashi
Principal Scientific Officer (Sustainable Grassland Systems)
Agri-food & Biosciences Institute (afbi)

Chance of nil returns: a novel indicator to measure the changing impact of climate volatility on grassland productivity and support on-farm decisions

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Dr Louise McNicol
Research Associate
SRUC

Exploring the trade-offs between ammonia mitigation and greenhouse gas emissions on dairy farms

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Dr. Denis Meehan
Post Doc Researcher
Teagasc

Modelling enteric methane emissions from a suckler beef production system

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Dr Taro Takahashi
Principal Scientific Officer (Sustainable Grassland Systems)
Agri-food & Biosciences Institute (afbi)

Readily available measures of greenhouse gas mitigation are more than sufficient for UK livestock industry to stop contributing to further climate change if fully implemented

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Professor Michael Lee
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Harper Adams University

Identifying the biogenic and thermogenic carbon sources at farm level to support the transition to carbon net zero.

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Chair

Justin Zahra
Environmental Defence Fund

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