Real Greenhouse Gas Reporting and Measurement Program

At Melbourne Water, we have pledged to halve our emissions by 2025 and reduce them to net zero by 2030. We’re already increasing our use of renewable energy, but we also need to reduce our direct emissions, like those created through the treatment of sewage.

Historically, we haven’t had a complete view of these kinds of emissions, so we were limited in how we could improve our abatement strategies. That’s why we began our Real Greenhouse Gas Emission Measurement and Reporting Program.

We partnered with experts at The University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, Ektimo and Halliburton Scientific. And we worked together to develop new methods to measure and report direct emissions, from three major sources at our sewage treatment plants.