Graph of the day: Australia’s surging fossil fuel emissions

Australia can claim a new title: In the same way that the US and Syria are the only two countries to have either not signed or vowed to quit the Paris climate agreement, Australia can now lay claim with Turkey to be the only developed countries to break fossil fuel emissions records.

According to The Australia Institute’s newly released National Energy Emissions Audit, compiled by Dr Hugh Saddler, Australia’s annual emissions from energy use have increased to their highest ever level, higher than the previous peak seen eight years ago, in 2009.

“Australia’s failure to invest in efficient transport infrastructure, such as rail, has led to emissions from transport fuels continuing to grow, again, unlike the rest of the developed world,” Saddler says in the report.

Read the RenewEconomy story by Gile Parkinson - “Graph of the day: Australia’s surging fossil fuel emissions.”