{"id":14094,"date":"2021-11-30T21:11:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14094"},"modified":"2021-11-30T21:11:05","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T21:11:05","slug":"national-emissions-data-shows-pollution-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/national-emissions-data-shows-pollution-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"National emissions data shows pollution rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s quarterly emissions data reveals that emissions have risen by almost 2% this quarter and that the temporary decrease in carbon pollution during COVID-19 is wearing off.<br \/>\nEven more concerningly, June quarter emissions were 128 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, the highest number since December 2019 and the beginning of the pandemic.<br \/>\nLeader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP said this proves the only way to take genuine action on climate change is to kick the Liberals out, and put the Greens into balance of power.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re in a climate emergency, but emissions are increasing.<br \/>\n\u201cOur pollution needs to be rapidly falling but instead it\u2019s increasing.<br \/>\n\u201cEmissions are at their highest level since December 2019.<br \/>\n\u201cA pandemic is not a climate plan.<br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison has been relying on lockdowns to deliver his measly emissions cuts, but across Australia, Labor and Liberal Federal, State and Territory governments are opening more coal and gas projects, and now we\u2019re starting to see the effect of it.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need to get out of fossil fuels, but Liberal and Labor are opening up more coal and gas, and now our emissions are rising instead of falling.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat part of \u2018no more coal and gas\u2019 don\u2019t Liberal and Labor understand? This week\u2019s approval of $50 million to frack the Beetaloo Basin will increase Australia\u2019s emission even further.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need to take genuine climate action, and we can\u2019t take another three years of the Liberals\u2019 lies and fudged figures. We need to kick the Liberals out and put the Greens into balance of power, where we\u2019ll push the next government to phase out coal and gas and reduce emissions 75% by 2030.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s quarterly emissions data reveals that emissions have risen by almost 2% this quarter and that the temporary decrease in carbon pollution during COVID-19 is wearing off. Even more concerningly, June quarter emissions were 128 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, the highest number since December 2019 and the beginning of the pandemic. Leader of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/30\/national-emissions-data-shows-pollution-rising\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National emissions data shows pollution rising&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}