Australia begins purging emissions data

Australia begins purging emissions data

The federal environment department has begun the removal of years of historical greenhouse gas emissions data and projections from its website, raising fears the data may be lost from public access.

Sound familiar here in the U.S.?

Information relating to several climate change and sustainability initiatives have also been removed from the environment department’s website, including the Climate Solutions Fund and the National Electric Vehicle Strategy.

Pages previously containing information on historical emissions and pages containing emissions projections data, now return an empty page and an error message.
In the past, the department of environment has come under criticism for delays in the release of updated greenhouse gas emissions data, particularly when data showed emissions increasing. These delays were often the result of subsequent environment and energy ministers opting to sit on contentious data rather than release the data publicly

It has also become an unfortunate standard practise that updates to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions projects, which are published annually, are released by the Coalition government in the days leading up to Christmas, often on Christmas-eve itself, preventing full scrutiny of the projections.

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