1. Reducing Emissions from Livestock Research Program Research Program structure and objectives Progress on contracts etc Understand Expectations – DAFF and MLA obligations as coordinator Identify any needs/ issues/ new opportunities for projects Establish basis for reporting on research & budgets Communications, M&E, information management Ongoing program collaboration, support, cooperation

2. Program Objectives To deliver knowledge and technologies to enable producers to breed and/or manage ruminants to significantly reduce methane emissions while maintaining livestock productivity for a viable agriculture industry. Through effective integration and management of research effort this program will deliver: capability for improved methane measurement from animals and herds, and indicators of rumen microbial and function to identify and monitor variations in methane production between animals and across management options strategies for significantly reducing ruminant methane emissions within ten years based on high quality research covering a combination of genetic selection, rumen microbial manipulation and nutrition based projects, an information hub of value to science and policy stakeholders, across climate change adaptation and mitigation activities, but specifically supporting decisions on the role of agriculture in Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and quantifying the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestock through adoption of a range of management practices.

3. Outcomes Australia’s livestock industries equipped with cost-effective, practical strategies to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from rumen fermentation and from manure management in feedlots within 10 years. Robust scientific information on quantified abatement opportunities from current and newly available management practices available to government, industry, and individual land managers by 2013 to inform a decision on options for contribution by agriculture to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, specifically relating to Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme or alternative incentive mechanisms. Livestock industries better able to adapt to the impacts of climate change due to productivity gains of at least 10% by 2020 due to strategies arising from methane mitigation research.

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7. ‘Worst case’ impacts of the CPRS on livestock industries

9. Reducing Emissions from Livestock Research Program Governance

11. Program structure

12. Theme 1. National Coordination and Addressing the Priority Program structure Theme 2. Quantifying Methane Emissions – Measurement Techniques

13. Theme 3. Genetic approaches in sheep and cattle to reduce emissions Program structure Theme 5. Improved management of waste

14. Theme 4. Manipulation of rumen function or activity for lower emissions Program structure

15. Theme 6. Farming systems for lower methane emissions, demonstration and information delivery Program structure

16. Program Deliverables Program Deed signed01/03/09 Steering Committee established01/06/09 Progress Report01/06/09 Financial Report01/10/09 (a) Program Workshop & (b) Steering Committee meeting 30/10/09 Progress Report01/12/09 Forums held with (a) government stakeholders (b) industry stakeholders01/03/108 Steering Committee meeting01/05/10 Progress Report01/06/10 Financial Report01/10/10 (a) Program Workshop (b) Steering Committee meeting n30/10/10 Progress Report01/12/10 Forums held with (a) government stakeholders (b) industry stakeholders01/03/11 Steering Committee meeting 01/05/11 …………Same through to 2012………………….