It's climate Christmas! But data dump shows Australia has a long way to go on emissions

The government deserves credit for a fall in electricity emissions but large parts of industry and farming are still emitting the same as they were in 2005Get our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastThe wonks call it climate Christmas - the dump of Australian climate change information from the federal government that happens shortly before the end of the parliamentary year, and just as the annual UN climate summit kicks off.It's impossible to get across it all in one brief sitting, so this is by necessity a first look only, but the hundreds of pages of data published in five documents on Thursday tell us a lot about where Australia is up to on the climate crisis, and where it is heading. Continue reading...