Tag: Carbon Emissins

Are Australia’s carbon emissions and air quality rankings really surprising? – Air Quality is worse but Hunt got the Prize

Australia's carbon emissions jumped in 2015 (image from smh.com.au)

By Dr Anthony Horton In the Yale University ‘Global Environmental Performance Index’ (EPI) report published earlier this month, Australia did not rate too well. Ranked 150th out of 180 countries for carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity, we were also ranked 123rd in terms of average exposure to Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) – an air…

Source: Are Australia’s carbon emissions and air quality rankings really surprising? – » The Australian Independent Media Network