Cecile de Klein is an internationally recognised scientist in environmental management of agricultural systems, with focus on nitrogen cycling and greenhouse gas emissions from grazed livestock systems. She is a Principal Scientist with AgResearch and a Principal Investigator of the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre where she leads the nitrous oxide research programme. Cecile was part of the International Nitrogen Management System project team that developed guidance on farm N budgets and N performance indicators. She works closely with the agricultural sector and policy makers in New Zealand to help develop tools for on-farm management of nitrogen flows and GHG emissions, and to improve national GHG accounting.

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Her keynote “The role of nitrogen management in lowering greenhouse gas emissions from grazed livestock systems” will focus on the role nitrogen management options play in achieving GHG reduction targets of dairy grazed systems. It will discuss the impacts of singular as well as stacked mitigation and management options on nitrogen losses, GHG emissions and farm profit.