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Environmental ReportingSustainable Scorecard Framework
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Sustainable Scorecard FrameworkMeasuring Dairy Value Australian dairy’s ability to take advantage of expected market expansion may be constrained by the biophysical impacts of climate change and the availability and cost of key farm inputs like water, land and feed, and changes in national policy and regulatory settings (e.g. how dairy is treated under a national emissions trading scheme).
Future changes in the policy settings facing dairy will be driven by community views on the ethics and sustainability of industry practices across the whole supply chain. Communities are looking beyond the economics of production and trade and asking whether individual industries are also good stewards of Australia’s natural resources and regions and part of a sustainable future.
In its current Strategic Plan, Dairy Australia has determined that one of its strategic priorities is to work to promote and protect dairy’s value proposition to government and the broader community, not only in relation to the economic and health credentials of dairy products but also in terms of its industry-level contribution to broader social and environmental sustainability objectives.
While significant work has been done analysing and explaining dairy’s performance in individual areas (such as Health and Nutrition and on-farm NRM), the industry has not yet developed an agreed framework which it can use to present a holistic picture of its sustainability performance.
This project aims to help the industry develop a sustainability scorecard framework that will measure dairy’s environmental sustainability and social performance against a diverse matrix of factors and bring these together into a standardised performance measure that will underpin its communication messages on triple bottom line sustainability. The scorecard outputs will allow the dairy industry to:
This is an R&D project being conducted by the Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
For more information, please contact:
Neil van Buuren
Program Manager Resource Management and Technology
03 9694 3811
0417 503 472
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