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Oct. 10, 2008 Source: Purdue University news release The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Conservation Technology Information Center present the Conservation Agriculture Carbon Offset Consultation on Oct. 28-30, 2008. The event will be held at the Beck Agricultural Center, West Lafayette, Ind. Scientists, researchers and ag conservation experts from Africa, Australia, Canada, Central America, India, South America, U.S. and elsewhere will unite in West Lafayette to focus on how agricultural conservation may engage in the global carbon offset market. Key topics include: * The latest research on the impacts of conservation farming on carbon and greenhouse gases around the world; * Tools for monitoring and measuring carbon sequestration to enable credit trading; * Demand for a carbon market; * How carbon markets are functioning in different regions; * Barriers and opportunities to adopting low-emissions farming techniques; * A tour of Purdue's no-till research plots. Included will be the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) secretariat on carbon finance and how it can assist in enabling GHG agricultural mitigation and carbon sink actions and measures, with particular reference to the Clean Development Mechanism (financial mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol). Speakers will include: * Theodor Friedrich, UN Food and Agriculture Organization Crop and Grassland Service * Neeta Hooda, Sustainable Development Mechanisms, Methodologies Unit, UNFCCC * Rattan Lal, Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, The Ohio State University * Telmo Amado, Fedral University of Santa Maria * Charles Rice, Kansas State University * Li Hongwen, Conservation Tillage Research Centre, China Agricultural University * Bram Govaerts, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) * Joao Carlos de Moraes Sa, University of Ponta Grossa * Maria Cristina Amezquita, Carbon Sequestration Project, The Netherlands Cooperation * Mike Walsh, Chicago Climate Exchange * Tom Goddard, Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development * Dennis Haak, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada * S.K. Tandon, Indian Council of Agricultural Research * Blair McClinton, Saskatchewan Soil Conservation Association * Jeff Tullberg, Controlled Traffic Solutions * Richard Fowler, Conservaton Agriculture Capacitator Register for the event by Friday, Oct. 10, by clicking here. Reserve your hotel room today at the University Plaza Hotel, 3001 Northwestern Ave., West Lafayette, IN 47906, phone (765) 463-5511. Rate of $85/night for Oct. 27, Oct. 28, Oct. 29 will be offered if rooms are available. This hotel is closest to the Beck Agricultural Center. A bus will transport Consultation attendees from/to this hotel before and after the meeting each day. In addition, the social event on Oct. 28 will take place at this hotel. Sponsors include Agrotain International, Syngenta, the Mosaic Company and the National Corn Growers Association. |
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