Australia and Victoria’s greenhouse gas emissions

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• Victoria’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Sector reporting categories

 

Tables 1 and 2 represent Victoria and Australia’s total emissions broken down by the sectors used internationally for greenhouse reporting. The total emissions from a facility may be allocated within one or more sectors. View Table 3 for a description of each sector.

Table 1. Victorias net greenhouse gas emissions (Mt CO2-e) by sector.

 

Sector	Victoria’s Emissions
	1990		2000		2006
	Mt CO2e	% total	Mt CO2e	% total	Mt CO2e	% total
All Energy	80.3	74.2%	98.0	81.7%	102.7	84.3%
Stationary Energy*	60.3	55.7%	78.9	65.8%	80.9	66.4%
Transport*	16.3	15.1%	18.3	15.3%	19.9	16.3%
Fugitive Emissions*	3.7	3.4%	2.5	2.1%	1.9	1.6%
Industrial Processes	3.6	3.3%	2.2	1.8%	2.4	2.0%
Agriculture	15	13.9%	15.3	12.8%	15.1	12.4%
Land use, Land-use change and forestry	4.6	4.3%	-1.4	-1.2%	-4.2	-3.5%
Waste	4.8	4.4%	3.9	3.3%	4.2	3.5%
Total Net Emissions	108.2	100%	120.0	100%	121.9	100%

*Note: Stationary energy, transport and fugitive emissions are all components of "all energy" emissions.

Source: State & Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventories 2006, Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of the Environment and Water Resources, June 2008.

To view Victoria’s complete greenhouse gas inventory, go to: www.climatechange.gov.au/inventory/stateinv/index.html

Table 2: Australia’s Net greenhouse gas emissions (Mt CO2-e) by sector.

Sector	Australia’s Emissions
	1990		2000		2006
	Mt CO2e	% total	Mt CO2e	% total	Mt CO2e	% total
All Energy	287.0	52.5%	357.6	64.8%	400.9	72.9%
Stationary Energy*	196.0	35.8%	252.0	45.7%	287.4	52.3%
Transport*	61.9	11.3%	74.6	13.5%	79.1	14.4%
Fugitive Emissions*	29.1	5.3%	30.9	5.6%	34.5	6.3%
Industrial Processes	25.3	4.6%	27.4	5.0%	28.4	5.2%
Agriculture	87.7	16.0%	95.5	17.3%	90.1	16.4%
Land use, Land-use change and forestry	128.9	23.6%	53.9	9.8%	13.8	2.5%
Waste	18.3	3.3%	17.2	3.1%	16.6	3.0%
Total Net Emissions	547.1	100%	551.5	100%	549.9	100%

*Note: Stationary energy, transport and fugitive emissions are all components of "all energy" emissions.

Source: National Greenhouse Gas Inventory 2006, Australian Greenhouse Office, Department of the Environment and Water Resources, June 2008.

Australia’s complete greenhouse gas inventory, go to: http://www.climatechange.gov.au/inventory/2006/index.html

Table 3: The reporting categories of each IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) sector

 

Sector	IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) reporting categories
Stationary energy	Electricity production, petroleum refining, manufacture of solid fuels and other energy industries and the combustion of fuels used by manufacturing industries and construction.
Transport	Civil aviation (including international air transportation) and domestic air transportation Road Transportation, comprising: passenger cars subdivided by age band light commercial vehicles medium duty trucks heavy duty trucks buses motorcycles Railways Navigation international marine transportation domestic marine transportation, comprising: coastal shipping pleasure craft (recreational boating) ferries commercial fishing Other transportation, comprising off-road recreational vehicle activity
Fugitive emissions	Solid fuels, oil, gas and oil and gas venting and flaring.
Industrial processes	Mineral products, chemical products, metal products, other production, production of halocarbons and SF6 and consumption of halocarbons and SF6.
Agriculture	Enteric fermentation, manure management, rice cultivation, agricultural soils, prescribed burning of savannas and field burning of agricultural residues.
Land use, land use change and forestry	Forest lands, croplands and grasslands, and biomass burning.
Waste	Solid waste disposal on land, wastewater (domestic, commercial and industrial) and incineration. The methods for solid waste disposal are currently subject to review, nonetheless, and may be refined before the preparation of the next inventory.

For more information see the Australian Methodology for the Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks 2006 – workbooks at www.greenhouse.gov.au/inventory/methodology

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