Climate Justice Project

The release of the Global Carbon Budget 2022 shows global emissions set to increase instead of decrease. Australia must play a stronger role in cutting greenhouse emissions by taking responsibility for all the GHG emissions to which we contribute, especially through the export of coal and gas.

“The emissions from Australian coal and gas exports are more than a 1,000 MtCO2-e – double our total domestic emissions making us a major contributor to climate change."

More https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/

The Global Carbon Budget (2022), produced by the Global Carbon Project, shows global fossil CO2 emissions are projected to rise by 1.0% in 2022.

If current emissions levels persist, there is a 50% chance that warming of 1.5°C will be exceeded by the end of the decade.

“We need to face up to the cold hard reality that Australia is one of the world’s largest suppliers of cheap tax-payer subsidised fossil fuels – and therefore we are a major contributor to climate change." says Professor Jeremy Moss UNSW.

More https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/

With COP27 beginning today, countries must consider the impact of their fossil fuel exports on global emissions, and include them in emissions reduction policies and plans.

While Australia claims to be “meeting and beating” its emission reduction commitments, use of Australian coal, oil and gas overseas adds more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere each year.

While Australia claims to be “meeting and beating” its emissions reduction commitments, fossil fuel exports are growing, with Australian coal, oil and gas adding more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere each year

Australia’s fossil fuel exports are responsible for more than double its domestic emissions. Click the link in our bio to learn more.

Australia’s emissions from exported fossil fuels rise again.

Despite the global COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 was a year of rapid developments in corporate and government climate commitments, renewable energy expansion and decarbonisation ⚡️At the same time, the world literally started feeling the heat, as the impacts of the changing climate manifested in devastating droughts, storms and bushfires 🔥⛈ 2021 looks set to be a pivotal year as governments and fossil fuel companies recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic. We’ll be watching closely and sharing it all with you here 🤔 Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with climate news and climate justice issues. Link in our bio.

Despite the global pandemic, 2020 was a year of rapid developments in decarbonisation and climate action whilst countries around the world began to feel the impacts of the changing climate. 2021 will be a pivotal year as governments and fossil fuel companies begin to recover from COVID-19. We’ll be watching closely.

“Fossil fuel exporting companies and countries seem to think that their emissions responsibility stops at national borders, not with the overall liveability of the global climate” - read more about exports emissions in our latest article via the link in our bio 🔥

- NEW ARTICLE - Though they espouse carbon reduction, many global powers and fossil corporations take no responsibility for the emissions of the fossil fuels they export - if we want to keep warming well below 2 degrees, this needs to change. Head to the link in our bio to read about why current international conventions for emissions accounting are letting big polluters fall through the cracks