GORAIL - Carbon Emission Reductions through Carbon Abatement Projects

Abatement refers to a project or activity which removes greenhouse gases (GHG's) from the atmosphere or reduces emissions of these gases below what they would otherwise have been.

The Greenhouse Challenge
The Greenhouse Challenge is a joint voluntary initiative between industry and the Australian government to abate greenhouse gas emissions.

Organisations sign agreements with the Federal Government that provide a framework for undertaking and reporting on actions to abate emissions. Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO)

Greenhouse Gas Abatement
The Australian Government's pioneering Greenhouse Gas Abatement Programme (GGAP) will play an important part in helping Australia meet its international emissions reduction target.

GGAP aims to reduce Australia's net greenhouse gas emissions by supporting activities that are likely to result in substantial emissions reductions or activities to offset greenhouse emissions, particularly in the period 2008-2012. The most recent emission projections show that GGAP will deliver an abatement of 5 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in 2010.

The programme leverages private sector investment in activities or technologies through projects. Examples of GGAP projects are based on co-generation (the use of waste heat or steam from power production or industrial processes for power generation), energy efficiency, travel demand management, alternative fuels, coal mine gas technologies and fuel conversion. Greenhouse Gas Abatement Programme (GGAP)

QR Limited's Abatement Performance
Of the 860 agreements made with the Australian Greenhouse Office, QR remains the largest primary transport operator and the only large freight haulage rail operator. QR is committed to sustainable environmental management and continues to demonstrate substantial improvements in reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and assisting Australia’s national efforts in this regard. QR signed its Greenhouse Challenge Cooperative Agreement in 2000, with 1998/99 as its base-reporting year.

Three years into its five-year plan to reduce emissions, QR successfully abated 329,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas - 15 percent better than QR's original goal for 2003. The original Greenhouse Challenge five-year agreement was 477,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas. Since this time, QR has reported a total cumulative abatement reduction of 1,700,000 tCO2-e since 2000, representing an increased average reduction every year since 2000 of 242,820 tC02-e.

QR is currently operating at their Year 2000 greenhouse gas emmission levels and achieving this while delivering twice the Year 2000 haulage task totalling 237 million tonnes in 2006/2007. QR has adopted many initiatives to achieve its greenhouse gas abatement and these initiatives fall into the following categories: improved asset utilisation; infrastructure development and upgrading; rollingstock innovation and upgrading; and enhanced efficiency of train operations.

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