Energy Minister Angus Taylor said greenhouse gas emissions have turned around by 1.1 billion tonnes under the Coalition. Is he correct?

The claim:

The Morrison Government has for months argued Australia is on track to meet its international greenhouse gas emissions abatement targets "in a canter”.

In an interview on ABC's Insiders, Energy Minister Angus Taylor said when the Coalition came to power it inherited a 755 million tonne emissions "deficit" needed to reach Australia's second Kyoto target because Labor "hadn't done the hard work”.

"We have turned that around by 1.1 billion tonnes," Mr Taylor said.

"They [Labor] hadn't got to the point where we were going to meet Kyoto. We will reach Kyoto in a canter."

In the same interview, Mr Taylor said emissions are "coming down right now”.

The verdict:

Mr Taylor's claim is misleading.

When the Coalition came to power in September 2013, the most up-to-date projections available were from a Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency report almost a year earlier.

The figures Mr Taylor cites are consistent with forecasts contained in that report and another released in December last year.

However, Mr Taylor's characterisation is problematic.

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