David Ripplinger
David Ripplinger has worked on agriculture’s relationship with sustainability, decarbonization, and the energy transition.
Price range
- $2,500 - $3,500
Expert
- Agriculture
- Carbon Credits
- Environmental Policy
- Green/Environment
- Sustainability: Environment
- Trends
Experience
- Agriculture
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About
David Ripplinger has worked at the nexus of agriculture, energy, and the environment for over a decade.
He has given more than 100 talks across the country to farmers and ranchers, business leaders, government officials, academics, and others on agriculture’s relationship with sustainability, decarbonization, and the energy transition.
David’s talks have a distinct combination of humor, practicality, openness, insight, and impact.
David is currently an associate professor at North Dakota State University where his research has been published in top academic journals. He has advised a number of agriculture, food, and energy companies and previously worked on Capitol Hill, in private industry, and at the USDA.
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Topics
SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENT AND THE IMPLICATIONS
The implications of carbon credits to agriculture are tremendous but are also only one part of larger public and private efforts underway to ensure the sustainability of the industry and that it plays a leading role in achieving broader, economy-wide goals.
While American agriculture is defined by its productivity and farmers and ranchers take pride in stewardship of their land and livestock, voluntary and involuntary systems are emerging that will impact profitability, people, and the planet. Understanding the broader context of the sustainability movement is critical to strategically managing modern farms, ranches, and other agribusinesses.
CARBON CREDITS: WHAT ARE THEY AND HOW THEY WILL IMPACT THE AG INDUSTRY
There is a not-so-distant future when American farmers and ranchers receive billions of dollars annually not for what they grow, but how they grow it. And the party picking up the tab won’t be taxpayers or consumers, but large corporations. Many will look back at today as a time when they made informed decisions that benefitted their business while others will not.
As farmers across the country are increasingly being invited to enter contracts to change their practices in exchange for payment, understanding certain issues is critical. Knowledge of what and why carbon credit buyers are buying, why producers are and aren’t signing contracts, obvious and not so obvious considerations for producers entering into contracts, current market conditions, and how the market is likely to evolve are fundamental.