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" Working towards the equitable, efficient and sustainable use of water, land and other environmental resources of the Queensland Murray Darling Basin "

Climate & Energy

The QMDC Energy and Waste program is focused on broadening the understanding of various forms of climate change risks by stakeholders across the region.

Do you want to trial carbon farming?

QMDC Climate Change Officer Rhonda Toms-Morgan is keen to hear from land managers in the Queensland Murray-Darling Basin who want to host trial sites on their properties. Rhonda is working to secure investment from the Australian Government's Action on the Ground, a component of Carbon Farming Futures. Action on the Ground is designed to enable on-farm trial and demonstration of practices and abatement technologies to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and/or increase carbon sequestered in soil.

Action on the Ground on-farm projects will create new opportunities for landholders and farmers to participate in the Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) by trialling and demonstrating outcomes from research programs including, but not limited to, the Climate Change Research Program and the Filling the Research Gap program. Projects under Action on the Ground will ensure that research results can be practically applied on the ground in real farming situations.

Capacity for broadacre mixed farmers to adapt to climate change in Queensland

Peter R. Brown, Kerry Bridle, Rhonda Toms-Morgan, Daniel Rodriguez

The ability of farmers to effectively adapt to climate change depends not only on the degree of exposure to climatic change but more importantly the amount of knowledge, support and opportunities available to them in order to respond to that change. Adaptation options operate at the farm scale in addition to industry level approaches. Changes to enterprise mix (e.g. proportion of crops to pastures) are an example of one farm-level adaptation option. Click here to read the full paper.

More about QMDC's Climate & Waste program

The need for consideration of climate change adaptation is becoming more important, with further planning required to determine the most appropriate set of climate change priorities with respect to implementation of QMDC’s Regional NRM Plan.

• Energy efficiency on farm
• Living sustainably

• QMDC has a Carbon Jargon Buster (pdf) to help with some of the terminology used in climate change discussions.

For more information, contact QMDC's Climate Change Officer Rhonda Toms-Morgan, 07 4620 4600.