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Carbon Baseline Assessment
Cradle Coast Authority (CCA) engaged West Pine Advisory Pty Ltd (West Pine) to undertake a Baseline Emissions Assessment for the 2025 Financial Year
This summary is derived from the 2025 Assessment prepared based on the Green House Gas (GHG) Protocol standards utilising the best available data at the time of its creation Further information relating to the assessment, methodology, uncertainty and assumptions is contained in the full report
The GHG emission sources reviewed as a part of this inventory were identified with reference to themethodology in the GHG Protocol, classified under the following categories:
Direct GHG emissions (Scope 1): emissions from sources that are owned or controlled by the entity;
Indirect GHG emissions (Scope 2): emissions from the generation of purchased electricity, heat and steam consumed by the entity;
Indirect GHG emissions (Scope 3): emissions that occur as a consequence of the entity’s activities but from sources not owned or controlled by the entity
West Pine has assessed Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 upstream emissions within the defined emissions boundary of CCA’s operational control
For the 2025 Financial Year, CCA reported a total emissions footprint of 446t CO₂-e
Establishing an accurate emissions baseline is a crucial step in enabling positive environmental change. By undertaking this assessment, CCA continue to demonstrate their strong commitment to sustainability and their role as a leader in the community on the matter
The ability to measure and monitor emissions is a key driver of meaningful progress
Key Findings
For the 2024-25 Financial Year, CCA’s Carbon Foot print totalled 446t CO₂-e
This equates to 0 071kg CO₂-e / $ Revenue
Scope 1 - 9t CO₂-e - 2%
Scope 2 - 5t CO₂-e - 1%
Scope 3 - 431t CO₂-e - 97%
Travel emissions
CCA’s Employee Commuting and Business travel had a high representation of electric and hybrid vehicle kilometres If these vehicles were equivalent size internal combustion vehicles, the CO₂-e would be 11 7t (up from 4 5t CO₂-e) - more than double - for the combined 70,434kms travelled
To further support the uptake of low emission transport, CCA installed EV charges in the latter end of the 25FY.
Activity v Spend Data
The data for the assessment was compiled from a mix of activity and spend based emission factors
Where activity data, such as kilometres travelled, litres & kWh consumed was available from records & surveys this was used in the first instance Where activity data was unavailable spend based emission factors where relied upon
Breakdown of Scopes into emission categories
Each three of GHG Protocols’ scopes has categories of emissions This table summarises those that are relevant to, and have been included, in CCA’s baseline assessment.
This categorisation helps to clearly identify the sources of emissions, distinguish between direct and indirect impacts, and target reduction strategies across activities and supply chains
CCA’s Scope 1 emissions relate to emissions from the organisations 2 fleet vehicles as well as fugitive emissions from refrigeration assets, such as air conditioning units and refrigeration assets at premises and the 2 motor vehicles
Scope 2 is electricity consumption over 2 sites being the central office Portside in Burnie and a satellite office at Strahan
Scope 3, or value chain, emissions account for 97% of CCA’s emissions, which is slightly higher than for most organisations which see Scope 3 emissions in the 65% - 95% range*.
Within Scope 3, Purchased Goods & Services was the highest contributing category Due largely to Truck Wash projects in the year, 60% of these emissions relate to Construction works
Emissions per Activity
CCA track business operations and each project undertaken which enabled the reporting of emissions according to each activity for the year
The largest contributing project for the 2025 year was the truck wash projects with 212t CO₂-e, arising from the high level of construction and construction input
Core Operational Activities, contributing 55t CO₂-e, and the Maugean Skate Project, with 48t CO₂-e, were the second and third highest emitting activities
Other project with double digit CO₂-e were King Island Birds (16t), Giant Freshwater Crayfish (15t) State Support for Regional NRM (14t) and Steps towards Sustainability (13t)