The major companies who make up the membership of the Kwinana Industries Council (KIC) have embarked on a bold carbon reduction plan for the Kwinana Industrial Area.
The KIC, with the support of its members, has undertaken an important project to reduce carbon emissions from industry in a coordinated and collective way.
Believed to be the first project of its kind, the Carbon Reduction Project brought a diverse group of KIC members together to develop, plan and apply a process and strategy for the reduction of carbon.
The purpose of the project was to move the KIA to a net zero carbon emissions profile through coordinated carbon reduction initiatives implemented by the members of Kwinana Industries Council.
While the world’s journey to Net Zero Carbon by 2050 requires everyone to take action, it is recognised by KIC’s members that reducing carbon for a heavy industrial area like the KIA requires collective action.
As a collective, industry can leverage each other’s knowledge and expertise, allow ideas to be developed and shared, encourage the take up and implementation of changes faster and more efficiently, and reduce duplication of effort.
Key considerations relating to the KIC carbon reduction project have been:
- KIC members have independently made their own carbon reduction and sustainability commitments.
- Much work has already been done by many KIC members to reduce their individual greenhouse gas emission profiles, and it is acknowledged there remains more work to be done.
- The technical merits of implementation of carbon sequestration techniques, carbon harvesting and offsetting all need to be considered, as is the introduction of green energy technologies including wind and geothermal power, and remotely generated solar power.
- The exploration and introduction of new technologies and new ways of working are essential on the carbon reduction journey.
- Individual members may choose to act independently to implement some strategies beyond the confines of their site, or even the industrial area itself, and collectively on other strategies to achieve reduction targets.
- The competitive advantage of the industrial area comes from its original co-location of industry together allowing uniquely efficient cross-boundary material flows and synergies to occur.
The KIC Project has three phases:
Gathering data from publicly available information and formulating the inventory – completed.
Identification of potential broad-based and practical mitigation projects – in process.
Implementation by KIC members, individually and/or collectively
