Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased for fourth year in a row in 2018

Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise in 2018, according to a government report to the United Nations.

 Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions rose again in 2018,
according to the national inventory report to the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change. 

The submission shows again that Australia faces a huge task in meeting its obligations under the Paris agreement despite the government’s insistence it has laid out “to the last tonne” how it will do this.

The national inventory report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) says preliminary estimates indicate Australia’s net greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 were 537 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.

This is an increase from 534.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2017.

Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox“ - “Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions increased for fourth year in a row in 2018.”