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Carl Binning is a farmer,
environmental economist and is Chief Executive of Greening Australia.
Greening Australia’s Mission is to engage the community in vegetation
management to protect and restore the health, diversity and productivity
of Australia’s unique landscapes.
Prior to joining Greening Australia
Carl was a principal research economist at CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
where his research focused on designing economic incentives and
institutions for sustainable natural resource management.
Carl has also worked as an
environmental economist within the Commonwealth Environment Department and
the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet where he participated in the
Ecologically Sustainable Development process, the Council of Australian
Governments Water Reforms and the development of Regional Forest
Agreements.
In his other life Carl is a farmer
growing superfine wool on a family farm near Yass, NSW.
At the forth coming Sustainability
Seminar Carl will reflect on progress in environmental patronage and
private lands conservation in Australia. Carl will address the need for
communicating the conservation challenge, development of effective
partnerships, securing private sector funding and the accounting for
contribution of private conservation. These four key challenges need to be
addressed to secure a ten-fold increase in private conservation.
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