Often the pages of this website as well as the general media can become a bit like the wicked witch from Snow White looking into their mirror and obsessing about who is the fairest electricity generation technology of them all.
Yet while it didn’t get much publicity, the release of Australia’s latest emissions inventory illustrates that addressing carbon emissions is about more than the headline-grabbing stuff of solar panels, wind turbines, nuclear power, and clean coal.
This week’s charts of the week illustrate that the growth in Australia’s emissions in very recent times is predominantly coming from the mining sector, with emissions from electricity and other sectors stagnating. Yet there’s been relatively little discussion about how mining might employ improvements in technology and practices to reduce their emissions. Also renewable energy support policies will do little to address the rapid growth in mining's emissions.
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