Date
10/1/2023 1:21:50 AM
(MENAFN- The Conversation) Professor & Director, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre, The University of Melbourne Profile Articles Activity
Richard Eckard is Professor and Director of the Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on carbon farming and accounting towards carbon neutral agriculture, managing extreme climate events and options for Agriculture to respond to a changing climate. Richard developed the first greenhouse gas accounting tools for agriculture with his research and expertise provided the science basis for the development of six carbon offset methods in Australia. 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. In 2021, Richard was named on the Reuters list of the world's 1,000 most influential climate scientists and appointed as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
Experience
2011–present Professor, Primary Industries Climate Challenges Centre 2011–present Professor, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Education
1994
The University of Natal, PhD 1987
The University of Natal, MSc (Agric) 1983
The University of Natal, BSc (Agric)
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