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Designer Carrots National Market Based Instruments Forum program and Powerpoints 

Day 1

Item

Plenary session 1

Official welcome
Mr Darryl Harvey, Chair, Market Based Instruments Working Group

Plenary session 2

MBIs in the policy spectrum: keynote thoughts from around the country
  1. 1. Markets for water (* pdf), Professor Mike Young, Adelaide University
  2. 2. Markets for biodiversity, Dr Charlie Zammit, Assistant Secretary, Biodiversity Conservation Branch, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Australian Government)
  3. 3. International perspectives(* pdf), Ms Anthea Coggan, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (Qld)
  4. 4. The role of the non-government sector, Mr Mike Gooey, Trust for Nature (Vic)

Stream 1. The five most important things learned from the Market Based Instruments Pilot Program (MBIPP) projects: A platform for several Pilot Program projects

  1. 1. Targeting environmental flow sourcing for multiple benefits(* pdf), Dr Jeff Connor, CSIRO (SA)
  2. 2. Water quality in the Burdekin(* pdf), Dr Jill Windle, Central Queensland University
  3. 3. Designing auctions with outcome bonuses: An application to ground-nesting birds in the Murray Catchment(* pdf), NSW, Dr Nick Abel, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (ACT)
  4. 4. Improving water quality discharge from Lockyer Creek and issues of enforcement and regulation in the application of MBIs, Associate Professor John Tisdell, Griffith University (Qld)
  5. 5. Auction for landscape recovery under uncertainty(* pdf), Dr Rohan Sadler, University of Western Australia


Stream 2. What’s happening in my neck of the woods: a platform for regional NRM groups, NGOs and other implementers

  1. 1. Mr Greg Hales, Blackwood Basin Group (WA) (* pdf)
  2. 2. Mr Geoff Penton, Queensland Murray Darling Committee(* pdf)
  3. 3. Ms Margie Milgate, Growcom(* pdf) (Qld)
  4. 4. Mr Robert Moir, Wimmera CMA (Vic)

 

Stream 3. Best-practice metrics: what are they and why do you need them?(* pdf)

Facilitated question-and-answer discussion with Dr Patrick O’Connor, O’Connor NRM (SA)

Stream 1. Getting the right people involved in MBIs: communication and participation

  1. 1. Dr John Mackenzie, Griffith University (Qld)
  2. 2. Mr Ken Moore, Land and Water Australia (* pdf) 

 

Stream 2. Sharing the lessons: lessons from seed money projects funded by the MBI Capacity Building Program

  1. 1. Critical landholder and service provider constraints to biodiversity auction implementation, Miss Sarah Lance, SA Murray Darling Basin NRM Board
  2. 2. Land stewardship case study: Developing an investment pathway for environmental goods and services delivery in the Bass Coast, Ms Jodie Gager, West Gippsland CMA (Vic)
  3. 3. Developing a price-based market signal for increased dairy participation in NRM (* pdf), Mr Don McPhee, Southern Rivers CMA (NSW)

 

Stream 3. Issues, constraints and opportunities for MBIs in peri-urban Australia

  1. 1. Seekers, survivors, speculators and strugglers: MBI characteristics for peri-urban Australians (* pdf), Dr Patrick O’Connor, O’Connor NRM (SA)
  2. 2. South Australia's Catchment Care project  (* pdf), Dr John Ward, CSIRO Policy and Economic Research Unit (SA)
  3. 3. MBIs for ecosystem services in the peri-urban: Between a house and a green space (* pdf), Ms Anthea Coggan, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (Qld) 


Day 2

Item

Plenary session 4

The cutting edge. Program development opportunities: What are the latest thinking, research and policy ideas?

  1. 1. BioBanking and other developments in New South Wales (* pdf), Ms Jennifer Stace, Department of Environment and Climate Change
  2. 2. Current developments in Victoria, Ms Nicola Lansdell, Market Based Instruments Working Group (Vic)
  3. 3. Markets for carbon (* pdf) Mr Brett Janissen, Executive Manager, Asia–Pacific Emissions Trading Forum (ACT)

Concurrent session 3

Stream 1. Monitoring and evaluation for MBIs

  1. 1. Horses for courses: the real work starts after the race is run (* pdf), Dr Donna Hazell, Southern Rivers CMA (NSW)
  2. 2. How do land managers set prices: An evaluation of price-setting behaviour in the BushBids conservation tender in South Australia (* pdf), Dr Patrick O’Connor, O’Connor NRM (SA)
  3. 3. Evaluating the Lower Burdekin Water Quality Improvement Tender: What did we learn? (* pdf), Paul Duncanson, Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM (Qld)

 

Stream 2. Water security and water quality

  1. 1. Dr Jill Windle, Central Queensland University (* pdf) 
  2. 2. Professor Mike Young, Adelaide University
  3. 3. Dr Kathleen Broderick, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (* pdf)

 

Stream 3.  Vegetation and biodiversity

  1. 1. Biodiversity rewards: Building stewardship values amidst drought and short-term funding cycles, Mr Glenn Bailey, Namoi Catchment Management Authority (NSW)
  2. 2. Fattening the biodiversity market, Professor Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland 

Stream 1. Challenges for using MBIs in the rangelands and in Indigenous communities and lands

  1. 1. Dr Patrick O’Connor, O’Connor NRM (SA)
  2. 2. Challenges and opportunities for market based instruments in Indigenous Lands, Honorlea Massarella, North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NT)
  3. 3. Market-based incentive to remove large feral herbivores from the landscape, Mel Feldmuller, Rural Solutions SA

Stream 2. Environmental economics tutorial

  1. 1. Dr Jeff Connor (SA) and Ms Anthea Coggan (Qld)

 

Stream 3. Does Australia have the capacity to conduct successful MBIs? Lessons and issues from the MBI Capacity Building Program (* pdf)

Dr Vikki Uhlmann, Mr Jim Binney and Ms Mary Maher (Qld)

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