Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are rising and forecast to miss 2030 target

‘Official data quietly released before Christmas shows emissions rose 0.8% in the year to June and will miss 2030 goal based on current policies’

Gas plant in Mount Isa, Queensland.
 Greenhouse gas emission have again risen
in Australia,  according to official figures.

Australia’s emissions are rising, and projected to keep doing so to 2030, meaning it will fail to meet its 2030 emissions targets, according to government figures.

The official quarterly figures, showing growth in year-on-year emisssions, confirms independent projections from NDEVR Environmental, released earlier this month by Guardian Australia, which predicted Australia’s emissions would be rising.

But the government figures also confirm that emissions are predicted to rise to 2030. Emissions that year are predicted to be 10% higher than the year to June 2016.

By 2030, the report estimates Australia will have emitted 1bn tonnes more than it is allowed to, according to its 2030 commitments.

Read The Guardian story - “Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are rising and forecast to miss 2030 target.”