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Australia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Greenhouse Australia, a government office devoted to greenhouse issues, has recently released an inventory of Australia's GHG emissions for 2001, suggesting Australia released 543 million tonnes net of CO2e (using Kyoto Accounting Protocols) into the atmosphere in 2001. The so-called stationary energy sector, which includes the generation of electricity as well as the direct consumption of solid, liquid, gaseous, biomass and other fuels for purposes other than electricity generation, was responsible for nearly 48% of these emissions. Seventy percent of the emissions in the stationary energy sector are from electricity generation.  Australian Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Business Sector.
 Australia's Stationary Energy Emissions 2001.
Trends The contribution to GHG emissions by electricity generation has been increasing, rising by about 41% between 1990 and 2000. Electricity generation now represents about one third of the total of Australian GHG emissions.
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