Submission: Energy Crops and Product Guarantee of Origin Position Paper

Year:
2026
Type:
Submissions
Topic:
Advocacy, Emissions Reduction, Freight, Resilience

The Australian Logistics Council provided input to the Australian Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water on the treatment of energy crops within the Product Guarantee of Origin (PGO) scheme. ALC supports a transparent, non-prescriptive certification framework to underpin investment in low-emissions fuels for hard-to-abate freight and logistics sectors. ALC recommends maintaining flexibility in feedstock eligibility, adopting a staged approach to incorporating broader lifecycle emissions (beyond farm gate), and implementing tiered emissions factors that combine default values with supplier-specific data. It also supports treating land use and soil carbon as transparent attributes rather than embedded emissions. ALC emphasises aligning the PGO scheme with wider policy settings—such as procurement and fuel incentives—to drive practical uptake, investment, and decarbonisation across Australia’s freight and logistics networks.