Prof Richard Eckard

Professor of Carbon Farming at the University of Melbourne and National program leader in the Carbon Research Centre for Net Zero Agriculture

Richard is Professor of Carbon Farming at the University of Melbourne, science leader in the Net Zero Agriculture CRC.

His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture and options for agriculture to respond to a changing climate.

Richard developed the first greenhouse gas accounting tools, for all sectors of agriculture in Australia, that now form an agreed national standard for agriculture.

Richard is a science advisor to the Victorian, Australian, New Zealand, UK and EU governments, the International Livestock Research Institute and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization on climate change adaptation, mitigation and policy development in agriculture.

Richard was recently named on the Reuters list of the world’s 1,000 most influential climate scientists.