Aussies Show New Energy Cuts Emissions
Renewable energy spike led to sharp drop in emissions in Australia, study shows; Surge in October last year helped greenhouse gas emissions fall by 3.57m tonnes in December quarter
Joshua Robertson and Nick Evershed, 8 March 2017 (UK Guardian)
“A sharp drop in Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions at the end of last year came courtesy of a spike in renewable energy generation in a single month…[E]missions fell by 3.57m tonnes in the three months to December, putting them back on track to meet quarterly commitments made in Paris after a blowout the previous quarter…The fall is the largest for the quarter since the government began recording emissions in 2001…[It] was entirely due to record levels of hydro and wind generation in October…[which] brought emissions for the year to December to below the year to December 2015 [according to just-released research]… click here for more
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