{"id":59796,"date":"2021-10-10T09:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59796"},"modified":"2021-10-10T09:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T14:14:45","slug":"australian-green-house-gas-emissions-down-in-2020-due-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59796","title":{"rendered":"Australian Green House Gas emissions down in 2020 due to Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian Green House Gas emissions down in 2020 due to Covid<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Australian Prime Minister claimed emissions are down 20% from 2005 levels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prime Minister:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201c\u2026Australia is part of the solution. Our emissions have fallen by 20 per cent since 2005. We are the only country to our knowledge, that engages in the transparency of reporting our emissions reductions, every sector, every gas, every quarter\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Hon. Angus Taylor MP, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction:\u00a0\u201c<\/em><\/strong>We\u2019re seeing extraordinary changes in farming practices, in the deployment of soil testing technologies by farmers across this country bringing down emissions, contributing to Australia\u2019s performance, whereby we met and beat our Kyoto targets, our 2020 targets, 459 million tonnes. We beat those targets, almost a year\u2019s worth of emissions. We\u2019re on track to meet and beat our 2030 targets as well.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/media\/press-conference-canberra-act-14<\/a><\/p>\n

2005 is of course the year in which the Kyoto protocol (adopted in December 1997) came into force\u00a0https:\/\/unfccc.int\/kyoto_protocol<\/a>\u00a0for which Australia negotiated an INCREASE of 108% on 1990 levels for the commitment period 2008-2012. Remember that PM Rudd ratified Kyoto in December 2007, shortly after coming to power.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s have a look at the latest quarterly report (December 2020) current at the time of the above media release:<\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 1: Australia\u2019s emissions from the quarterly December 2020 report
\nhttps:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/data-and-publications\/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-quarterly-update-december-2020<\/a><\/p>\n

An archive of all quarterly reports since March 2009 can be found here:
\nhttps:\/\/www.industry.gov.au\/data-and-publications\/national-greenhouse-gas-inventory-quarterly-updates<\/a>
\nNote that the above graph is not zero scaled, so the decline looks impressive. The next graph with the same data gives the right perspective:<\/p>\n

\"\"Fig 2: Quarterly emissions zero scaled with 2005 (trend) level<\/p>\n

We use the data sources XLS file (Figure P1 sheet) and add the 2005 emissions level of 155.7 Mt (sum of quarterly emissions) as a horizontal red line which gives us a decrease of 20.3% by December 2019, the last month before Covid19 hit. The actual quarterly peak was in September 2008.<\/p>\n

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Australian Green House Gas emissions down in 2020 due to Covid The Australian Prime Minister claimed emissions are down 20% from 2005 levels Prime Minister:\u00a0\u201c\u2026Australia is part of the solution. Our emissions have fallen by 20 per cent since 2005. We are the only country to our knowledge, that engages in the transparency of reporting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[41,6292,31938,607],"class_list":["post-59796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-australia","tag-crude-oil-peak","tag-green-house-gas-emissions","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59799,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59796\/revisions\/59799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}