Australia & New Zealand's peak body for clean freight
An independent, not-for-profit peak body for freight decarbonisation in Australia and New Zealand, built for operators already investing in it.
Annual freight spend across Australia and New Zealand. Most operators have no carbon measurement capability against that base.
Transport is Australia's fastest-growing emissions sector, and is set to become the largest.
Entities moving into mandatory climate disclosure as AASB S2 and ISSB-aligned reporting roll out.
Companies required to report Scope 3 freight emissions by 2029.
The opportunity
Freight is one of the most significant and least-addressed contributors to transport emissions across Australia and New Zealand. The sector lacks the shared infrastructure to respond.
Without an institution to build capability, develop market mechanisms and engage government with a collective voice, the sector keeps responding in fragments, which is slower and costs more than it needs to.
Transport and logistics is a priority disclosure category for listed and large entities, driving demand for credible freight emissions data across supply chains.
Most operators and shippers lack working knowledge of carbon accounting, measurement and the reduction pathways available to them.
The sector needs credible frameworks around environmental attribute certificates and insetting to make decarbonisation commercially viable at scale.
Freight decarbonisation needs a cohesive, informed policy approach and one credible voice for the sector.
The challenge
The absence of an independent organisation to facilitate government engagement limits policy advocacy and weakens coordinated action across the sector.
Low carbon literacy across the logistics sector delays engagement and action, particularly in land transport, where freight emissions are largest and least measured.
Without a unified measurement standard, companies can't gauge their impact, compare performance, or demonstrate credible reductions to customers and regulators.
Without a chain-of-custody registry, a reduction stays stranded on the lane that paid for it.
What the Council is
The ANZ Clean Freight Council exists to accelerate the decarbonisation of freight transport across Australia and New Zealand. It gives the sector the method, standards and market mechanisms it needs to act, and carries its position to government and regulators.
Why we exist
Everything the Council does sits under one of three purposes. Five programme pillars turn them into work.
Equipping operators with the method, standards and knowledge to measure, reduce and account for their emissions.
Building the commercial frameworks that make decarbonisation viable at scale and at lower cost.
Using collective expertise and sector representation to engage government and regulators as the independent voice on freight decarbonisation.
The Council today
DP World · NewVolt Infrastructure · Port of Melbourne. Founding membership is open.