Ports Australia has launched its world first Port Sustainability Strategy Development Guide. Ports Australia has endeavoured with this Guide to provide Australian ports with a systematic and robust approach to sustainability as they prepare their strategies or evolve the work they’ve already done. The approach has been industry applied throughout Australia and New Zealand, but equally has the potential to be adapted through ports across the world.
The Guide follows on from Ports Australia’s 2019 ‘Ports and a Sustainable Australia’, which went hand in hand with a Sustainability Hub, both projects showcasing the amazing work Australian ports are already doing for the sustainability of their business and surrounding communities and environments. The Sustainability Strategy Development Guide could not have been produced without the dedication and knowledge of Ports Australia’s Sustainability Working Group, as well as Sprott Planning & Environment.
Ports Australia spoke with the Chair of its Sustainability Working Group, Simona Trimarchi, who provided her perspective on sustainability planning and how this guide provides a fresh approach. ‘Given the nature of what ports do and the incredible amount of value we provide to regional and national economies and the natural environments and communities in which we operate, sustainability planning is critical,’ Simona said. ‘The guide is different in that it is a how-to on sustainability, it gets into the detail of how to start looking at sustainability for your business, how to define sustainability, and then how to develop a logical and structured plan on how to advance it over time…
