Our approach to sustainability

Air travel is currently not environmentally sustainable. Find out more about our approach to sustainability.

Our approach to sustainability includes understanding and working to address the environmental impacts and enhancing the social aspects of our business.

The Qantas Group has a long-standing commitment to corporate responsibility. In 2022 we updated our Corporate Strategy Framework to specifically reference sustainability.

Our Sustainability Framework is aligned to our strategic priorities and focuses on three key principles - valuing our planet, enabling our people and connecting customers and communities.

At Qantas Group, we review our sustainability targets, plans, priorities and disclosures regularly as our programs and initiatives develop.

Climate

While our climate targets and timelines haven't changed, we've made the following key changes to the sustainability information on our website:

We have clarified that our 2030 target is to reduce net Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 25% from 2019 levels.
We acknowledge that aviation is a hard-to-abate sector, and carbon credits will have an ongoing role in compensating for air travel emissions, even as alternative direct emission reduction levers (e.g. sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), more fuel efficient fleet and emerging technologies) become more readily available.
We've recently changed the name of our Fly Carbon Neutral program to Voluntary Carbon Program, and clarified that the carbon credits we purchase (including those that we purchase under our Voluntary Carbon Program) support projects outside the aviation sector. Purchasing carbon credits is not the same as preventing emissions in the first place. We've provided more details about the projects funded by our purchase of carbon credits.

Waste and single-use plastics

While we remain committed to reducing waste and eliminating single-use plastics wherever possible, we have removed our single-use plastics and waste targets from our website. The availability of suitable solutions, requirements such as safety and hygiene, and our limited ability to affect change in certain parts of our supply chain are impacting our ability to meet our current targets, so we're exploring options for new waste related targets that are practical and achievable in the current environment.

Read more about our progress and how we're working towards circularity

Qantas Group remains committed to reducing our impact on the environment.