Prime Minister Scott Morrison has long suggested Australia can do little to influence the Earth's changing climate because its emissions make up just 1.3 per cent of the world total.
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| Should Australia's exported fossil fuel be counted in its share of global carbon emissions? |
The imputation, by extension, is we're too small to make a difference.
Such arguments have been made possible — in part — thanks to the international carbon accounting methodology most commonly used to apportion greenhouse gas emissions to individual countries.
Sometimes referred to as territorial-based carbon accounting, this system attributes emissions only to activity that takes place within a country's borders; for example, through the combustion of coal for power generation.
Read the ABC News story by Josh Gordon - “Should Australia's fossil fuel exports be counted in its share of global carbon emissions?”
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