Australia’s emissions flat, but climate politics hit new low over zero carbon target — RenewEconomy
New government data show Australia’s emissions flat, as Angus Taylor argues emissions are falling if you ignore the sectors where they went up. The post Australia’s emissions flat, but climate politics hit new low over zero carbon target appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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The Federal Government report shows that in the 29 years from 1990 to 2019 the per capita emissions intensity (PC EI) has fallen by 40%. The change is far from smoothe but the average rate of decrease is about 1.3% per annum.
I haven’t read the whole report, just the summary, and I’m not sure if bushfire emissions are included in the data. The report does say that the 2019-2020 bushfire emissions are being calculated.
The GDP emissions intensity (GDP EI) decreased by about 60% (average of about 2% per annum) over the same time period. The graph (figure P1) makes the GDP EI decrease look about double the PC EI but this is due to a dubious choice of scales. The GDP EI is itself unreliable because it depends on what’s in the GDP.
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