‘Terrible’: Rising gas output lifts Australia's greenhouse gas emissions

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have continued to climb, reaching the highest levels on a quarterly basis since 2010, led by a surge in gas production.

Big jump in gas production has propelled
Australia's greenhouse gas emissions higher.

For the 12 months to March 31 2018, emissions totalled 529.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, up 1.3 per cent from a year earlier, the Environment Department said in the report released on Friday afternoon. Fugitive emissions, mostly from the gas sector, jumped 13.7 per cent.

Read the story by Peter Hannam from The Age - “‘Terrible’: Rising gas output lifts Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.”

(Releasing this damning information on a Friday afternoon when people are already in leisure mode and further distracted by AFL and NFL grand finals implies that the coalition Government is afraid people will get to see and understand that it is failing in it efforts to control Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and so has no chance of achieving its 2015 Paris Promises - Robert McLean)

‘Terrible': Rising gas output lifts Australia's greenhouse gas emissions

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have continued to climb, reaching the highest levels on a quarterly basis since 2010, led by a surge in gas production.

Big jump in gas production has propelled Australia's
 greenhouse gas emissions higher.

For the 12 months to March 31 2018, emissions totalled 529.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent, up 1.3 per cent from a year earlier, the Environment Department said in the report released on Friday afternoon. Fugitive emissions, mostly from the gas sector, jumped 13.7 per cent.

Read the story by Peter Hannam from The Sydney Morning Herald - “‘Terrible': Rising gas output lifts Australia's greenhouse gas emissions.”

UK carbon emissions at lowest level since 1890

Fresh analysis has highlighted the dramatic fall in carbon emissions within the UK, reaching a new low unseen in normal times for 128 years.

The UK’s carbon emissions are now the same as
when Vincent Van Gogh died, or Oscar Wilde’s The
Picture of Dorian Gray was first published.

The findings are based on figures from the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and analysed by the Carbon Brief website.

The data shows that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels declined by 2.6 percent in 2017, following a 5.8 percent drop in the previous year.

Read the ClimateAction story - “UK carbon emissions at lowest level since 1890.”