🧭 How to Navigate Major Facility Data

Summary

The Major Facility section shows data about Australia's biggest polluting facilities and the companies behind them. The structure has three dimensions:

• Key metrics: Gross emissions, baselines, and credits
• Industry groups: Using the ANZSIC categories of Division, Subdivision, Group, Class (Read more)
• Individual entity views: Facility-level or company-level data

How It's Organised

1. By key metrics:

• Gross emissions (total greenhouse gases a facility emits)
• Baselines (the legal emissions cap, or limit, under the Safeguard Mechanism)
• Carbon credits (needed to reduce net emissions to comply with the baseline)

2. By industry groups:

• Division (broadest category)
• Subdivision (second-broadest category)
• Group (second-narrowest category)
• Class (narrowest category)

How to Navigate the Section

From the main Major Facilities dashboard:

1. Start with the big picture (Division).

The first table on the Major Facility dashboard gives an overall view of how each industry compares. It shows aggregate emissions, baselines, and carbon credit use for each division.

Further down the page are lists of every facility and reporting company covered by the Safeguard Mechanism. For example, here are the lists of biggest polluters by facility and company.

2. Use the first table to drill into Subdivisions.

For example, clicking on Mining, will take you to that Division's page. It has an identical structure to the main dashboard.

The first table gives an overall view of each subdivision in that division.

Further down the page are lists of every facility and reporting company covered by that division. For example, here are the lists of biggest polluters by facility and company.

3. Repeat the process to drill into Groups and Classes.

4. At any point, click on any facility or company name to view the data history.