Three degrees of climate devastation
Canberra Times
Saturday 14/6/2008
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Australia's per capita greenhouse emissions are the developed world's highest, at around 26 tonnes of carbon dioxide a person.
As the co-chair of the Global Carbon Project, CSIRO atmospheric physicist Dr Mike Raupach, wryly remarked to the conference, "We have a lot of work to do."
The ability of the world's oceans and forests to absorb carbon is decreasing, and CSIRO research shows carbon dioxide emissions are increasing at a rate hitch faster than expected, driven by increasing per capita wealth. Australia's carbon intensity - the amount of carbon burned as fossil fuel for each unit of energy - is 20 per cent higher than the world average.
"Three degrees of climate devastation". Canberra Times, Saturday 14/6/2008
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According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Australia's per capita greenhouse emissions are the developed world's highest, at around 26 tonnes of carbon dioxide a person.