Car travel and a taste for meat fuel rise in greenhouse gas emissions

Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising in defiance of the Andrews government’s strong renewable energy push, mostly due to surging car and truck traffic, and from cattle, sheep and pig farming.

Victoria's greenhouse gas emissions tumbled when
the Hazelwood power plant closed in 2017 but are rising again.

A report on the state’s carbon dioxide emission levels reveals they fell about 10 per cent when the Hazelwood coal-fired power station closed in March 2017, but have been increasing since, with population growth and rising demand for meat major contributors.

Read the story from The Age by Adam Carey - “Car travel and a taste for meat fuel rise in greenhouse gas emissions.”