GORAIL - Find Out About Our Rail Carbon Reduction Projects

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. (Australian Engineering Excellence Awards 2002)

QR Limited 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. Since this time, the organisation has reported cumulative abatement reduction of 329,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent (tC02-e) in 2002/2003. QR reported an annual reduction of 158,500 tC02-e for the reporting year of 2001/2002.

In 2007, QR 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 including improved asset utilisation, infrastructure development and upgrading, rollingstock innovation and upgrading and enhanced efficiency of train operations.

Find out more about some of our latest projects using the link options in the left hand panel of this web page.

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