L-R – Kathy Kelly (TMI Chief Operating Officer), Wilf Finn (Mulloon Law Committee) and Carolyn Hall (TMI CEO, Managing Director) at the NSW Farm Writers’ Association lunch.
In late October, the Mulloon Institute’s CEO and Managing Director Carolyn Hall was invited to attend breakfast with NSW Minister for Environment James Griffin to learn about the NSW Government’s Natural Capital Statement of Intent. The morning provided an opportunity to learn about the efforts underway to accelerate natural capital investing in NSW.
The statement sets out the vision and pathway to enable the NSW Government to leverage first-mover advantage to attract international capital investment; and give landholders an increased opportunity to voluntarily participate in carbon, biodiversity and emerging natural capital markets.
Carolyn had the opportunity to speak to Minister Griffin the following day at the NSW Farm Writers’ Association lunch, where they discussed the opportunities to assist NSW farmers to build natural capital on-farm through landscape scale repair and rehydration, and the need for capacity building for farmers to support them through the changes required in building natural capital, and participating in the associated voluntary markets.