The PM spruiked the myth that Australia’s ‘quality’ coal was relatively clean – following in the footsteps of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison
“What you would see is a replacement with coal from other countries that’s likely to produce higher emissions because of the quality of our product,” he told the ABC’s 7.30 on Wednesday.
“It’s a meme and it’s disappointing and disturbing that the Albanese government has picked this up,” says Bill Hare, chief executive of Climate Analytics. But in a report on the properties of exported thermal coal, the minerals council also says emissions “vary with both the technology used and the coal properties”. While CO2 emissions can be calculated, the report says the data “is unavailable for all the international coals reviewed in this paper”., which says the company exports “high-quality coal”, the difference in burning its coal in a power station compared to burning coal from Korea or China is about 4%.
If the world is to reach its climate goals, the solution is not to substitute one lump of coal for another, but to burn much less of the stuff in the first place. The climate crisis is largely a creation of fossil fuels, so to claim that burning some of them in a vehicle can be “carbon neutral” has a very oxymoronic feel to it.
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