Sustainability at BNE

Our Strategy

Three Sustainability Pillars: Protect, Support and Grow

Brisbane Airport Corporation (BAC) recognises that sustainability is essential not just in ensuring long-term, responsible growth, but also in safeguarding the environment for future generations. Our refreshed sustainability strategy builds on a long history of achievements, while developing partnerships with key stakeholders and aligning with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

This provides an exciting future pathway for BAC, through a holistic approach that commits to delivering positive, sustainable outcomes through three actionable pillars: Protect our Planet, Grow Responsibly and Support our Communities. Within these pillars are nine focus areas ensuring responsible and collaborative outcomes, which underpin our purpose to create a world-leading Airport City that future generations trust and are proud of.

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BNE Sustainability Strategy Overview

Our Targets

Brisbane Airport recognises that being a leader in sustainability means constantly challenging ourselves to create the best future possible. Our revised sustainability targets demonstrate our focus on building a sustainable Airport City. This includes a commitment to be a Net Zero airport by 2025, which is a significant advancement from our original 2050 target. In addition, our 2030 waste and water targets will greatly reduce our environmental footprint.

But we won't stop here. We will continue to challenge ourselves to increase the scope of our targets and commitments, and we will report on our performance through the BAC Annual Report.

Our Sustainability Pillars

Protect our Planet

Protecting our planet is essential to the ongoing prosperity of our natural ecosystem and to limit the impacts that BAC has on the environment through three focus areas of Decarbonisation, Circular Economy and Climate Change Resilience. This will be achieved by:

Achieving Net Zero emissions by 2025
Increasing our adaptive capacity and resilience against climate change
Transitioning to renewable energy and increasing our energy efficiency
Enhancing biodiversity and protecting our coastal ecosystems
Progressing towards a circular economy by reducing natural resource consumption and delivering environment best practice outcomes

Grow Responsibly

In growing responsibly, we aim to ensure that the airport and our local community continues to prosper by focusing on Sustainable Design, Sustainable Procurement and Employee Experience. This will be achieved by:

Promoting health and wellbeing to ensure the Brisbane Airport community is healthy and happy
Ensuring diversity and inclusion is a priority across all aspects of our business
Ensuring sustainable procurement principles are embedded across our business operations
Enhancing sustainable design across all new and existing developments
Delivering significant socio-economic impact, facilitating the 24,000+ jobs and generating considerable value for Queensland families
Planning for future growth through sustainable investment and building sustainable supply chains and destinations

Support our Communities

Supporting our Communities has always been a priority for Brisbane Airport in our day-to-day operations. It is also an imperative pillar for a sustainable future, with focus areas on Partnerships and Engagement, Education and ensuring the airport is for everyone. This will be achieved by:

Engaging our community on the burdens and benefits of our operations and giving back to our airport neighbours
Building partnerships and collaborations with the aviation industry, our supply chain and our community to accelerate sustainable outcomes
Increasing transparency and building positive and trustworthy relationships with our communities

Materiality Assessment

The assessment involved close consultation with our 4 Bosses, with 400 participants asked to complete a short survey and 15 interviews with participants from our 4 Bosses. The purpose of the survey was to ask participants to rank and prioritise each of the material topics based on their level of importance to our business. Interviews were also held with 15 stakeholders across our 4 Bosses to gain further insights into the material topics and the preliminary results of the survey.

Materiality Assessment

The result from the survey and interviews show that our most important material topics include Health, Safety & Wellbeing, Security, Cyber Security and Privacy, Environmental Management and Operational Continuity & Resilience. It is important to note that all 16 material topics were rated highly (4 or above out of 5).

The findings of the materiality assessment will be incorporated into BAC’s Sustainability and Corporate Strategies and will be reviewed every 2 years in line with global reporting standards.

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