Australians have been told repeatedly that global warming leading to climate change is real.
The continent is becomng dryer, record air and ground temperatures are no longer novel, heavy rain events are predicted to become more destructive, mass flora and fauna extinctions are expected and the coastline is beginning to erode faster than at the historical rate.
It's not just happenng in Australia, other continents are also experience climate change and, the one factor most have in common is generations of ever increasing greenhouse gas emissions produced by both households and industries in metropolitan, regional and rural areas.
Everyone bears some responsibility for where the world finds itself......
In the first
quarter of 2018 Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions will be over MT 7.3 CO2-e higher than the national Paris ERT commitment made on our behalf by the Australian Government.
Over one
quarter of Australia’s CO2-e budget for 2013 to 2050 has already been
spent in the last 4.75 years.
AUSTRALIA’S ANNUAL
EMISSIONS, CALENDAR YEAR TO SEPTEMBER 2017*
* This graph includes both published Government NGGI data and Ndevr Environmental projections for Q4/FY2017 and Q1/FY2018
BY SECTOR 2005-2017
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World-wide, land
used for non-animal and animal-based agriculture in 2017 was estimated to
produce 24% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
In Australia agriculture
was responsible for est. 85.03 CO2-eMt or about 16% of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions in 2013:
66.3%
from enteric fermentation in ruminant livestock (eructation and flatulence)
15.5%
from agricultural soils
10.8%
from prescribed burning of savannas
3.9%
from manure management
2.4%
from liming and urea application
and
the remainder from rice cultivation and field burning of agricultural residues.
Total
greenhouse gas emissions from world-wide food systems in 2012 contributed between
19% to 29% of all global greenhouse gas emissions. By
2030 the combined greenhouse gas emissions from global food production is
expected to double.
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National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting, Australia’s highest 10 greenhouse gas emitters 2016–17
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