The big issues
Help set the direction for the future use of market-based instruments for achieving NRM goals in a changing environmental and policy climate.

What are some of the topics we’re discussing at the forum?

• What’s happening in my neck of the woods? (A platform for implementers to share lessons)
• Getting the right people and organisations involved in MBIs: optimising communication and participation
• Monitoring and evaluation, and their role in MBIs
• Best-practice metrics: what are they and why do you need them?
• The use of MBIs in different landscapes (peri-urban, rangelands, Indigenous managed land)
• Designer Carrots seed money projects: sharing lessons
• Markets for water
• Markets for biodiversity
• International perspectives: lessons and experiences, and how we might apply them
• The role of the non-government sector
• The five most important things that were learned from the Market Based Instruments Pilot Program
• What next: the use of MBIs for environmental problems
• Insights and directions in capacity for MBIs: outcomes of and reflections on the MBI Capacity Building Program
• Cutting-edge initiatives by state governments

Who’s coming?

Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Col Creighton, former Director, Water for a Healthy Country flagship program, CSIRO
• Professor Mike Young, Professor of Water Economics and Management at the University of Adelaide; and a Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
• Mike Gooey, Executive Director of Trust for Nature (Victoria)
• Anthea Coggan, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems (on the use of market-based instruments for ecosystem services)
• Jennifer Stace, National Action, Emission Reduction Section, Climate Change, Department of Environment and Climate Change (NSW)

Watch this space as we update the list of confirmed speakers and presenters.