The Greenhouse Indicator
The Greenhouse Indicator provides accurate and real time information on greenhouse gases produced each week from energy use. It is a unique tool designed to bring greater understanding to the issue and to help track greenhouse gas emissions in selected Australian States.
Each and every week we release greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Because they can't be seen, it is difficult to understand how much is being produced.
All countries provide a detailed annual report of their greenhouse gas emissions. But such reports are normally released up long after the emissions have occurred. Thus this information, while comprehensive and critical for policy planning and scientific assessment, arrives too late for us to respond to it in the manner necessary to tackling this problem.
The Greenhouse Indicator puts a figure on what is happening and enables everyone to follow how much we are emitting each and every week.
Please note: The availability of new data means that, as of
January 2010, we are now able to include emissions figures for gas
used in cooking and heating, both domestically and industrially, to
the Greenhouse Indicator in New South Wales, Queensland and South
Australia (This data is already included in Victoria). The new data
will be added to the emissions figures for gas used in electricity
generation, which are already included.
Figures for 2009 have been updated retrospectively so that we are
still able to make meaningful year on year comparisons. We also
hope to update 2007 and 2008 data shortly.
We have now also updated the equivalent weekly emissions levels
for 1990 and 2000 to reflect this.