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is now available.

The report fulfils Australia’s greenhouse gas inventory reporting requirements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and is the first submitted under the Paris Agreement. Its data provides the basis for tracking progress towards Australia’s Paris Agreement emissions reduction targets.

The report provides estimates of Australia’s net greenhouse gas emissions for the period 1989-90 to 2020-21 for the energy, industrial processes and product use, agriculture, waste and the land use, land use change and forestry sectors (outlined below in Figure 1), in accordance with Paris Agreement requirements including Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emission estimation guidelines.

Australia’s net greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors were 464.8 million tonnes (Mt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂-e) in 2020-21. This result shows emission reductions of:

• 27.0 per cent (171.5 Mt CO₂-e) from 636.3 Mt CO₂-e in 1989-90,
• 24.6 per cent (151.5 Mt CO₂-e) from 616.3 Mt CO₂-e in 2004-05, and
• 6.0 per cent (29.5 Mt CO₂-e) from 494.2 Mt CO₂-e in 2019-20.

The provides in-depth information on how Australia measures and reports its emissions. Emissions data from the report are published in an interactive online database: (ANGA). ANGA allows users to download and interrogate historical and projected emissions estimates. It includes the full suite of ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Greenhouse Accounts, providing additional information on Australia’s regional, industry and gas (raw and CO₂ -e) emissions.

The Report forms part of the . In the coming weeks the remaining elements of the Accounts will be published; the State and Territory Greenhouse Gas Inventories 2021 and ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Inventory by Economic Sector 2021, which disaggregate the ³Ô¹ÏÍøÕ¾ Inventory Report by jurisdiction and economic sector respectively.