Our sustainability initiatives at Moorabbin Airport are helping us, our customers, and our wider community meet their sustainability targets, while leading the way for others in the aviation industry to follow.
One of the most sustainable estates within the City of Kingston and metropolitan Melbourne, Moorabbin Airport will continue pioneering the practise of safe, compliant and effective environmental management.
We are committed to addressing climate risk through the ongoing sustainability initiatives of our Green Plan, which outlines environmental commitments like waste management, renewable energy generation, carbon emissions reduction, water conservation, and actively managing supply chains.
Moorabbin Airport encourages innovative and sustainable development that complement other activities in the City of Kingston. Since 2015, we’ve invested $250 million in sustainable developments, with Airport customers and other stakeholders contributing $70 million for their business requirements.
In 2020, Moorabbin’s first 5-Star Green Star (Green Building Council of Australia) building opened, with more to follow. All new developments have electric car charging stations, and encourage uptake of electric power tools, forklifts and e-bikes.
We’ve been steadily increasing our commitment to solar power at Moorabbin Airport, and we're on track to reach our target of 2,800 kW by 2025.
To date, the Airport has installed 2,100 kW of solar energy, which is enough to power 420 homes per year.
Moorabbin Airport deals primarily in flight training.
In 2019, we introduced a circuit booking system for student pilots to reduce idling time, congestion and pollution at ground level. The system saves Moorabbin Airport customers around 36,000 litres of fuel per year.
Moorabbin Airport, as part of Goodman Group, achieved carbon neutral operations in 2021.
Pleasingly, customers delivering 25% of aviation activity have achieved carbon neutrality. This is the result of customers reducing their own emissions and investing in projects that offset their remaining annual carbon emissions.