The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA) is pleased to welcome Ireland as the new Chair of the Alliance. Through its Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Ireland will lead the GRA’s efforts to advance international collaboration on agricultural greenhouse gas research and mitigation. 

A long-standing and active member since joining in 2009, Ireland has demonstrated strong leadership and commitment to science-based solutions for reducing emissions in agriculture. As Chair, Ireland aims to further strengthen partnerships, drive innovation, and support global efforts to enhance resilient and secure food systems. 

For more details, please read the official press release from Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine HERE.

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Working as a team player within the Carbon Storage Partnership (https://www.utas.edu.au/tia/research/research-projects/project/livestock-production/carbon-storage-partnership), the candidate will examine the nexus between climate change adaptation and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions mitigation. This will include co-development of practices, technologies and skills to elicit co-benefits and trade-offs associated with carbon dioxide removal (CDR), GHG mitigation and adaptation of the livestock and broadacre cropping sectors to the changing climate. Analyses may include, for example, costs associated with transitioning to net-zero emissions, temporal simulation of spatially-explicit carbon in vegetation and soils, productivity co-benefits caused by various interventions and pollution swapping, where increases in one GHG offset reductions in another e.g. Carbon Myopia.

Climate change adaptation assessments will be conducted at multiple scales, and may include economic, environmental and social implications of the changing climate for food security and environmental stewardship.

While much of the PhD will be desk-based, the candidate will be expected to be a team player, including co-design in consultation with stakeholders and other researchers within the consortium. This may require domestic and international travel from time to time.

Funding
The successful applicant will receive a scholarship which provides:

• A living allowance stipend of $AU33,511 per annum (2025 rate, indexed annually) for 3.5 years
• a relocation allowance of up to $AU2,000
• Tuition fees offset covering the cost of tuition fees for up to four years (domestic applicants only)
• If successful, international applicants will receive a University of Tasmania Fees Offset for up to four years.

Further information
https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/tasmanian-institute-of-agriculture/carbon-myopia/_nocache

The GRA Feed Additives Flagship Project is holding a webinar in 2025. Stay tuned for updates!

Flagship Goal: To accelerate the development and use of feed additives to reduce global enteric methane emissions from livestock.

COP29 has come to a close, and as always, it was a huge undertaking for those involved. For some it was successful, while others felt it fell short of achieving anything substantial. We have summarised some of the key takeaways from COP29, as well as provided some links to other articles.

For the Post COP Update, click HERE.