Louise Edmonds: The Big Picture - What's driving change in agriculture and food systems?
Channel: Carbon Sync
Date: 2023-05-04

In this video, captured at the start of the Carbon Sync education event, "The Nexus between Carbon, Nitrogen and Biodiversity," Louise Edmonds, CEO and Founder, provides an overview of the global drivers of change in agriculture and food systems. 

She tells us that food systems are responsible for 34% of global greenhouse emissions. Her presentation includes discussion of Australian drivers of change including:
- The Renewable Energy Target or RET of 33,000 GW hrs by 2020 - achieved in 2021;
- The National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007;
- Safeguard Mechanism; 
- The Carbon Farming Initiative Act 2011; and
- The Nature Repair Market Bill 2023. 

Global drivers of change include:
- Biodiversity COP Target;
- TNFD –Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures;
- TCFD - Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures; and
- CBAMs - Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms.

Louise summarises by stating that the education day is about how we decarbonise agriculture.

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