Dug up in Australia, burned around the world – exporting fossil fuels undermines climate targets
- Written by Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
Jason Benz Bennee, ShutterstockAustralia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels. While this coal and gas is burned beyond our borders, the climate-warming carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions affect us all.
My colleagues and I at global research and policy institute Climate Analytics were commissioned to find out just how...





