Such an increase would make the state’s target of reducing emissions by 30 per cent of 2005 levels by 2030 “effectively impossible”, the report states.
If the 34 projects proceeded to production at their intended capacity and lifespan, more than an additional 21.4 million tonnes of scope one and two emissions would be added to the state’s annual tally – a figure greater than that reported from existing mines in 2019 and equal to all emissions from the state’s agriculture industry that year.
The entirety of the projects’ planned production would add a total of more than 855.8 million tonnes of equivalent carbon dioxide to the earth’s atmosphere – 70 per cent more than Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissionsThe report also pointed to recent research showing significant underestimation of methane released from the state’s coal-mining activity.
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