To meet national climate targets and international climate commitments, Australia is undertaking economy-wide decarbonisation. One of the critical sectors to decarbonise is transport. In 2021, the sector contributed approximately 20 per cent of Australia’s domestic emissions and is likely to become the largest contributor by 2030.

Freight makes up a considerable share of transport emissions, estimated by Climateworks to be just under 40 per cent of the transport total. This represents approximately 7 per cent of Australia's total emissions. Within freight, road transport has a dominant, 83 per cent, share of emissions. This report focuses on opportunities to reduce emissions from road freight with solutions that span the entire freight sector.

This report’s recommendations take a two-pronged approach, the first to implement opportunities and solutions that are already available in short-haul road freight, and the second to enable a smoother transition towards emerging solutions and scale existing solutions in long-haul freight.