{"id":3013,"date":"2011-02-18T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2011-02-18T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T09:38:44","slug":"leading-ghg-emitter-and-biggest-coal-exporter-australia-kills-most-green-program-using-floods-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2011\/02\/18\/leading-ghg-emitter-and-biggest-coal-exporter-australia-kills-most-green-program-using-floods-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading GHG emitter and Biggest Coal Exporter Australia Kills Most Green Program using Floods Excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"Australia said Wednesday carbon emissions will rise more than predicted by 2020 in the world's biggest per capita polluter, blaming its Asian-led mining boom.  The climate change department predicted Australia's emissions will surge by as much as 24 percent by 2020 compared to 2000 levels, four percent higher than last year's projections.  &quot;Growth to 2020 is dominated by emissions associated with the extraction and processing of energy resources driven by strong export demand,&quot; the department said in its annual emissions report.  &quot;Fugitive emissions from coal mines and oil and gas projects, as well as direct fuel combustion emissions from LNG projects, account for almost half of the growth in Australia's total emissions from 2010 to 2020\">Australia is the biggest exporter of coal<\/a> in the world and one of the leading emitter of GHG emissions.Its huge mining industry generate tons of carbon and earns billions for the Australian Treasury.However despite its leading role in global warming,Australia has almost no subsidies for green energy.The federal government has conveniently used the recent Queensland Floods to cut off a number of Green Programs such as Green Car Innovation Fund, Cleaner Car Rebate Scheme, the Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships and Solar Flagships, the Solar Hot  Water Rebate, Green Start Program, Solar Homes and Communities Plan.The <a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/11\/13\/bpaccionia-and-suntech-fight-for-a-slice-of-the-controversial-australian-1-5-billion-solar-flagship-subsidy-dollars\/\">Solar Flagships Program<\/a> which was supposed to generate around 1 GW of Solar Energy has also been killed.Note Australia generate 92% of its electricity from Fossil Fuel which is quite high compared to other developed countries.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energymatters.com.au\/index.php?main_page=news_article&amp;article_id=1310\">Solar Energy Program Cutbacks To Help Pay Australia&#8217;s Flood Bill<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>In a speech to the National Press Club a short time ago, Prime Minister Julia Gillard outlined spending cuts and deferments to help provide funding to rebuild infrastructure ruined by Australia&#8217;s worst flooding disaster &#8211; some of the programs to fall include solar power initiatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its quite shocking that developed countries like Canada,UK and Australia have such a apathy towards problems of climate change.Japan and Europe appear to be angels in this regard compared to these countries.The recent Queensland Floods can be indirectly be linked to global warming so you would have though the thich headed government there would\u00a0 have increased green funding.Instead they have killed the funding because they have to use those funds for flood relief.Apathy towards global warmings and climate change has been rising with the failure of the Cancuan and Copenhagen climate meets.Australia has been leading the way in anti-global warming efforts.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.countercurrents.org\/polya171109.htm\">Australia Sabotages Copenhagen By Excluding Huge Agriculture GHG Emissions<\/a><\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Australia is a world leading greenhouse gas  (GHG) polluter as shown by the following data. As of 2008, \u201cannual per  capita greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution\u201d in units of \u201ctonnes  CO2-equivalent per person per year\u201d (2005-2008 data) is 0.9  (Bangladesh), 0.9 (Pakistan), 2.2 (India), 3.2 (the Developing World),  5.5 (China), 6.7 (the World), 11 (Europe), 16 (the Developed World), 27  (the US) and 30 (Australia; or 54 if Australia\u2019s huge Exported CO2  pollution is included<\/p>\n<p>This latest decision of the Rudd Labor  Government means that world leading per capita GHG polluter Australia  is telling the World a few weeks before the December 2009 Copenhagen  Climate Change Conference that it will continue to pollute the  atmosphere with GHGs domestically at more than 50% of its current level  FOREVER, while continuing to expand its world leading coal exports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia is the biggest exporter of coal in the world and one of the leading emitter of GHG emissions.Its huge mining industry generate tons of carbon and earns billions for the Australian Treasury.However despite its leading role in global warming,Australia has almost no subsidies for green energy.The federal government has conveniently used the recent Queensland Floods to cut off a number of Green Programs such as Green Car Innovation Fund, Cleaner Car Rebate Scheme, the Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships and Solar Flagships, the Solar Hot Water Rebate, Green Start Program, Solar Homes and Communities Plan.The Solar Flagships Program  which was supposed to generate around 1 GW of Solar Energy has also been killed.Note Australia generate 92% of its electricity from Fossil Fuel which is quite high compared to other developed countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[73,24,26,45,48],"tags":[912,914,1685,1720,1765,2071,2243,2256,3138,5291],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-climate-change","category-coal","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest","category-solar-heaters","tag-carbon","tag-ccs","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-green","tag-investment","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}