Professor Eckard’s research focuses on carbon neutral agriculture and agricultural adaptation to climate change. He developed the first GHG accounting tools for agriculture and contributed to six carbon offset methods in Australia. He is a science advisor to the Australian, New Zealand and UK governments, the International Livestock Research Institute, UN FAO and EU on climate change adaptation, mitigation research and policy development in agriculture. He is the Australian representative on the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gasses and a member of the Victorian Agriculture and Climate Change Council.