Īustralia uses principally coal power for electricity, accounting for 66% of grid-connected electricity generation in 2020, but this is rapidly decreasing with a growing share of renewables making up the energy supply mix, and most existing coal-fired power station scheduled to cease operation between 20.
According to the government, the result reflects the decrease in transport emissions due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, reduced fugitive emissions, and reductions in emissions from electricity however, there were increased greenhouse gas emissions from the land and agriculture sectors. It is 20.8% lower than in 2005 (the baseline year for the Paris Agreement). The national Greenhouse Gas Inventory estimates for the year to March 2021 were 494.2 million tonnes, which is 27.8 million tonnes, or 5.3%, lower than the previous year. Coal was responsible for 30% of emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions by Australia totalled 533 million tonnes CO 2-equivalent based on greenhouse gas national inventory report data for 2019 representing per capita CO 2e emissions of 21 tons, three times the global average.
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