{"id":27556,"date":"2019-01-31T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=27556"},"modified":"2019-01-31T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T20:01:25","slug":"oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/","title":{"rendered":"OECD Calls Out Australia On Emissions And Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-27557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia-1024x616.jpg\" alt=\"Australia Environmental Performance - OECD\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia-1024x616.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says Australia it is one of the most resource\/carbon-intensive OECD countries, and basically the Government needs to pull its finger out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The OECD&#8217;s mission is to promote policies seeking to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. There are 34 OECD member countries, including Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The OECD&#8217;s third Environmental Performance Review of Australia was released yesterday, which states the country won&#8217;t reach its 2030 emissions target without a major effort to move to a low-carbon model. It says Australia is one of the few OECD countries where greenhouse gas emissions (excluding land use and forestry) have risen in the past ten years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Reliant on coal for two-thirds of its electricity, Australia has one of the highest levels of non-renewable energy use of advanced economies, with fossil fuel consumption still benefitting from government support,&#8221; states a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/australia\/australia-needs-to-intensify-efforts-to-meet-its-2030-emissions-goal.htm\">release<\/a> accompanying the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report notes 63% of Australia&#8217;s electricity was derived from coal in 2017, whereas the OECD average was 27%. There are a few confusing figures in the report and release. The report says coal, oil and gas made up 84% of Australia&#8217;s energy mix in 2017 (noted as 93% in the press release, which is incorrect), compared to an OECD average of 80% (press release). That left renewables at 16% in Australia in 2017, compared to an OECD average of 25% (report). But if the OECD average for coal, oil and gas was 80%, how could renewables have been 25%? Australia has also installed a bunch of renewables since 2017 and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/at-its-current-rate-australia-is-on-track-for-50-renewable-electricity-in-2025-102903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more is on the way this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, among the energy-related recommendations in the Review:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The implementation of national integrated energy and climate policy framework for 2030 based on a low-emission development strategy for 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement.<\/li>\n<li>Bring energy taxes in line with environmental impacts of fuel use; i.e. taxing fuels currently exempt and increasing tax rates that are too low.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OECD Deputy Environment Director Anthony Cox said Australia is home to a tenth of global species and is seen by many as synonymous with pristine coastal areas and an &#8220;outback brimming with nature&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;However the country is increasingly exposed to rising sea levels, floods, heat waves, bushfires and drought,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/australia\/australia-needs-to-intensify-efforts-to-meet-its-2030-emissions-goal.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mr. Cox stated<\/a>. \u201cThis makes it all the more important that Australia take a more proactive role in fighting climate change and addressing biodiversity loss.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the report, Australia does get a thumbs up for its progress on solar energy, with it stating Australia is a world leader in solar PV installed capacity per inhabitant. While not providing a figure, in terms of small-scale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">solar power<\/a> (systems under 100kW), the per capita capacity is currently around 315 watts. The report also notes ten coal-fired power plants have been shuttered and three announced for decommissioning in Australia since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/read.oecd-ilibrary.org\/environment\/oecd-environmental-performance-reviews-australia-2019_9789264310452-en#page2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full report<\/a> is a big &#8216;un at 252 pages, or you can download a much leaner 16-page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/environment\/country-reviews\/EPR-AUS-Highlights-WEB-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summary here<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says Australia it is one of the most resource\/carbon-intensive OECD countries, and basically the Government needs to pull its finger out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":27557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OECD Calls Out Australia On Emissions And Energy - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The OECD says Australia it is one of the most resource\/carbon-intensive OECD countries, and basically the Government needs to pull its finger out.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OECD Calls Out Australia On Emissions And Energy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The OECD says Australia it is one of the most resource\/carbon-intensive OECD countries, and basically the Government needs to pull its finger out.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-30T20:01:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"722\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"OECD Calls Out Australia On Emissions And Energy\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-01-30T20:01:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/\"},\"wordCount\":489,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/oecd-australia-emissions-mb0921\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/oecd-energy-australia.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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