Reducing enteric methane is the fastest way to deliver climate impact in the short term. But it’s no longer a siloed issue. It now intersects with biodiversity, regenerative farming, product marketing and economic performance.That’s why methane is our entry point. And once we move, we can move bigger: linking climate action with soil health, animal welfare and farm resilience to create broader value across the whole dairy chain.

Beth Austermuhle
ForFarmers
Environment, Sustainability and Governance UK ManagerShares how feed manufacturers can support the dairy sector in decarbonisation. Drawing on the company’s use of green finance sustainability and its commitment to Science‐Based Targets, she will explain how investments in feed solutions and supply-chain processes can help reduce methane and other greenhouse-gas emissions.

Hanne Bang Bligaard
Arla Foods
Director Agriculture & SustainabilityShows how Arla Foods turns science into action through its Sustainability Incentive Model, using data to drive change and link farmers, dairies and retailers in cutting methane across the value chain.

Dr Andre Bannink
Wageningen Livestock Research, part of Wageningen University & Research
Senior Scientist Ruminant nutrition and ModellingPresents science-based solutions to cut methane emissions, from proven practices to innovations under development, within the broader context of sustainable dairy farming.

Peter Bauwens
Bauwens-Muys Farm
Dairy FarmerShares how local feed choices and government incentives have helped reduce methane and carbon emissions on his farm, highlighting co-benefits for animal health, feed efficiency, resilience and overall environmental performance.

Hattie Bracey
University of Glasgow / Scottish Alliance for Food
PhD CandidateShares insights from a collaborative project with ForFarmers, Valorex and Bleu-Blanc-Cœur. Her research explores how industry and consumer perspectives shape strategies to improve the nutritional quality and sustainability of dairy products, including findings from surveys and blind-taste tests in Scotland.

Jose Daniel Castellanos
Lactalis
Sustainability Project ManagerPresents how Lactalis integrates methane monitoring into its wider carbon strategy. He will explain Lactalis’ approach to ensure data consistency and comparability across regions. His intervention will highlight how these insights are embedded into Lactalis’ sustainability roadmap.

Jules Castro
Livelihoods
Regenerative Agriculture Senior ManagerExplores how carbon credits and intra-sector projects can finance the dairy value chain – connecting farmers, financiers and processors to build transparent, reliable and feasible projects through the role of a trusted third party.

Sarah Colombié
BNP Paribas Compagnie Engagement
ESG Global Environment Expert on Agriculture and Food SectorsExplains how the banking sector drives sustainability across the dairy and agricultural value chain through sector-specific policies and investment practices aligned with long-term sustainability goals.

Emilie Combet
University of Glasgow / Scottish Alliance for Food
Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Scottish Alliance for Food (SCAF)Explores how consumers respond to packaging claims and what drives their willingness to pay. Drawing on her recent study in Scotland, she reveals how nutrition, environmental and sustainability claims influence purchase intent and inform marketing and product strategies in dairy.

Brechtje de Schipper
Bel Group
Global Sustainable Milk Expert ManagerShares how Bel Group scaled up its carbon strategy across its dairy basins – from first steps to full implementation – highlighting challenges, success factors and the time needed to build a solid, collective approach.

Jean-Luc Doyen
SCEA des Guisettes
Dairy FarmerShares the story of his farm and the journey that led him to join the Bleu-Blanc-Cœur group, supplying milk to Schreiber Foods. He describes how this transition transformed his operation – from feeding practices to production results, herd health and sustainability gains – offering a real-life example of integrating climate- and performance-driven practices in dairy farming.

Samuel Dujardin
Bois Oran Farm and APBO (Association of Bel West Producers)
Dairy FarmerShares on-farm experiences with methane reduction strategies tested in the APBO network, plus insights on methods for calculating methane and overall carbon footprints.

Dr Eleanor Durrant
Cool Farm Alliance
Training OfficerPresents the Cool Farm Platform, a global tool for calculating greenhouse gas footprints with strong adoption in dairy, and shares insights from a UK project on scaling footprinting across the sector.

Fatih Ermis
Nestlé
Zone Europe Agriculture LeadShows how Nestlé’s methane strategy fits into a broader roadmap that includes regenerative agriculture, combining country-specific approaches to align consumer expectations with farmers’ realities and ensure credible, auditable data from farm to market.

Olivia Garcia
Eco-Sens
Agri-environmental Services DeveloperExplains how methane monitoring can serve as a powerful lever to engage farmers in reducing enteric emissions. Using a predictive tool based on milk fatty-acid profiles, Eco-Sens helps dairies identify on-farm methane levels and guide farmers toward practical, data-driven solutions for emission reduction.

James Husband
Map of Ag
Senior Livestock ConsultantExplores how enteric methane reduction strategies affect the whole farm footprint, from data sources to modelling improvements in reproduction, animal health, longevity and feed emissions.

Nathalie Kerhoas
Bleu-Blanc-Cœur
PresidentOutlines how dairy producers and dairies can leverage natural solutions to reduce enteric methane emissions while generating co-benefits across the value chain. She also explores how consumer willingness to pay for climate- and nutrition-focused claims shows that environmental performance, product quality and marketing can work hand in hand.

Dr Saša Krstović
University of Novi Sad - Faculty of Agriculture
Coordinator of the Deep Demonstrator site for Cattle ProductionPresents the ClimaPannonia project, testing climate-neutral and methane-reducing solutions in cattle farming, and exploring the best ways to measure carbon footprints and environmental impact.

Anaïs L'Hôte
Institut de l'Élevage
Environment Project ManagerShowcases Climate Farm Demo, a collaborative project uniting farmers, advisors and researchers to demonstrate real-life solutions for reducing methane and carbon footprints – with farmers leading by example to inspire the wider dairy sector.

Laura Le Bastard
Danone
Agriculture Sustainability ManagerPresents Danone’s decarbonisation project implemented across around one hundred dairy farms in France, testing natural solutions to reduce enteric methane emissions while tracking technical and economic results in close collaboration with farm ecosystem partners.

Dr Solveig Mendowski
Valorex
R&D Project Manager – Ruminant NutritionPresents the multiple benefits of incorporating pressure-cooked linseed into dairy cow diets – reducing enteric methane emissions while improving herd health and reproduction, and further lowering the farm’s overall carbon footprint.

Sébastien Moulis
Alltech
General Manager, FrancePresents key findings from the Alltech Sustainability Insights Survey, which gathered perspectives from over 2,500 agri-food professionals worldwide, highlighting how the industry perceives the challenges and opportunities of building more sustainable food systems.

Robert Pullar
ForFarmers
Ruminant NutritionistExplains how certain feed-based solutions, originally developed for other purposes, can also deliver methane reduction as a co-benefit. Because these practices are already integrated into farm management, they require little extra investment and are easily adopted by farmers.

Jérémie Renaud
Bleu-Blanc-Cœur
International Development ManagerPresents how Bleu-Blanc-Cœur supports dairy farmers, dairies and retailers in building a value chain capable of delivering multiple sustainability objectives, showing how alignment from farm to shelf enables collective progress through practical, measurable tools.

Benoît Rouillé
Institut de l'Élevage
Head of Climate teamPresents CAP’2ER, the French tool combining two equations in one model to improve the accuracy of enteric methane reduction estimates – a key factor in generating reliable carbon credits.

Teresa Sancho Gallego
Schreiber Foods
Sustainability Director EuropePresents Schreiber Foods’ initiatives to reduce methane emissions within its Scope 3 footprint across Europe, focusing on the French case where an integrated approach to environmental priorities – including methane reduction – has led to milk now available on the shelves of a major retailer.

Anvita Srivastava
Danone
Climate and Regenerative Agriculture SpecialistDiscusses Danone’s pioneering commitment to the Global Methane Pledge and how methane reduction sits at the heart of its broader climate and food-system strategy, highlighting global and country-specific actions that turn sustainability goals into measurable results across procurement, farming practices, data and regulation.

Argeo Ulrich
Mooh Cooperative
Project Manager – Value-Added ProjectsPresents how mooh has deployed a methane-reduction programme for its cooperative dairy farmers, detailing its beginnings, key levers and challenges, and how the initiative overcame obstacles to deliver measurable results and a credible carbon-certification pathway.

Joe Wannop
Dairy Farmer
Wannop FarmsExplains how a consistent and well-structured feeding system can enhance both productivity and sustainability. Drawing on his family’s approach – grouping cows by yield, monitoring feed and forage quality, and responding quickly to behavioural signs – he shows how attention to detail provides a practical basis for carbon and methane reduction on farm.

Jérémie Wainstain
Carbon Maps
Head of SciencePresents how environmental accounting in the food sector is evolving – much like financial accounting – to enable transparent, auditable dialogue across value chains, and how shared data systems help companies manage and communicate their sustainability performance.

Pierre Weill
Bleu-Blanc-Cœur
Co-founderExplores the "One Health" approach – the interconnected health of soils, animals and humans – as a guiding principle for sustainable dairy production, showing how integrating soil health, animal diet and human nutrition can align ecological and societal goals.

Pauline Woehrlé
Herbivor
Livestock Consultant, Specialist in Grass-Based SystemsExplores how grass-based feeding strategies act as a powerful lever for reducing enteric methane emissions, while delivering co-benefits for carbon balance, biodiversity and overall sustainability across the dairy value chain.

From Farm to Milk: Methane Reduction in a Broader Sustainability Lens

Producers, researchers, and innovators discuss practical solutions to reduce methane at the farm level. Beyond emissions, discover how these solutions interact with biodiversity, animal welfare, and farm economics.Speakers: Farmers, scientists, feed companies, cooperatives.

From Milk to Market: Integrating Methane into CSR Strategies

How do dairies and retailers embed methane reduction in their sustainability strategies? Learn from real-world initiatives and see how these commitments are communicated to customers and consumers.Speakers: Dairy companies, retailers, CSR managers.

Tracking Methane across the Value Chain: Tools, Data and Trust

Explore tools and methods to monitor methane from farm to consumer. What does it take to build reliable, transparent, and usable data for certification, reporting, and consumer trust?Speakers: Farmers, tech providers, scientists, retailers.

Funding Change: Making Methane Reduction Economically Viable

Methane reduction requires investment. This session explores models such as self-financing practices, consumer-supported schemes, carbon credits, and direct funding by dairies and retailers.Speakers: Feed companies, finance actors, dairies, retailers, carbon credit platforms.

Innovation in Action: 4-minute Pitches to Inspire Change

Fast-paced pitches from multi-partner projects and innovators. In just four minutes each, discover fresh ideas and solutions that could shape the future of sustainable dairy.Speakers: Innovators, project leaders, cross-sector partnerships.

From pilot to Scale: Real-World Case Studies of Collaboration

How can promising pilots turn into large-scale impact? Through concrete case studies, farmers, scientists, dairies, retailers and financiers share how they overcame barriers and built collaborative solutions to scale.Speaker: cross sector project teams