191020 Emissions are peaking - RE100 - ANU
1. Australia's greenhouse gas emissions are peaking at about 540 Megatonnes (MT) of CO 2-equivalent per year (Figure 1). After a brief plateau, we expect that they will decline by 3-4% over 2020-2022, and perhaps much more in the following years. 2. The reason is that Australia's world-leading per-capita rate of deployment of solar and wind