Record emissions keep Australia on path to missing Paris target

Australia’s emissions over the past year were again the highest on record when unreliable data from land use and forestry sectors are excluded, according to new data from NDEVR Environmental.

Electricity emissions fell in previous three quarters, but report
identifies slight increase of 1.7 m tonnes in most recent quarter.

If the country’s greenhouse gas emissions continue on their current trajectory, Australia will miss its Paris target by a billion tonnes of CO2, which is equal to about two years of Australia’s entire national emissions.

NDEVR replicates the federal government’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) quarterly reports, but releases them months ahead of the official data. Previous NDEVR reports’ figures have been within 1% of the official figures when they are eventually released.

Read the story by Lisa Cox from The Guardian - “Record emissions keep Australia on path to missing Paris target.”

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are rising and forecast to miss 2030 target

‘Official data quietly released before Christmas shows emissions rose 0.8% in the year to June and will miss 2030 goal based on current policies’

Gas plant in Mount Isa, Queensland.
 Greenhouse gas emission have again risen
in Australia,  according to official figures.

Australia’s emissions are rising, and projected to keep doing so to 2030, meaning it will fail to meet its 2030 emissions targets, according to government figures.

The official quarterly figures, showing growth in year-on-year emisssions, confirms independent projections from NDEVR Environmental, released earlier this month by Guardian Australia, which predicted Australia’s emissions would be rising.

But the government figures also confirm that emissions are predicted to rise to 2030. Emissions that year are predicted to be 10% higher than the year to June 2016.

By 2030, the report estimates Australia will have emitted 1bn tonnes more than it is allowed to, according to its 2030 commitments.

Read The Guardian story - “Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are rising and forecast to miss 2030 target.”