There
are est. 197 countries around the globe & of these Australia is
the 14th highest emitter of greenhouse gases, is still the highest
per capita emitter in
the OECD & is the 5th biggest miner of fossil fuel
carbon.
For a developed country of less than 26 million people Australia has a carbon dioxide monthly average in the vicinity of 405.59 ppm in the atmosphere over its land mass and national waters - which is only 1.81ppm below the global monthly average produced by a world population of 7.8 billion people in 2018.
Due to the amount of forest currently unable to function as high level carbon sinks because of the 2019-20 bushfires, Australia is expected to add an additional 2 per cent to the atmospheric carbon dioxide ppm total in 2020.
[Source: The Australia Institute, July 2019, NOAA
Earth System Research Laboratory Global Monitoring Division, December 2018, UK Met Office, January 2020 & countries-ofthe-world.com]
For a developed country of less than 26 million people Australia has a carbon dioxide monthly average in the vicinity of 405.59 ppm in the atmosphere over its land mass and national waters - which is only 1.81ppm below the global monthly average produced by a world population of 7.8 billion people in 2018.
Due to the amount of forest currently unable to function as high level carbon sinks because of the 2019-20 bushfires, Australia is expected to add an additional 2 per cent to the atmospheric carbon dioxide ppm total in 2020.
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