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Good Friday afternoon, and welcome to your climate data briefing. This is the third (and, for now, final) part of our mini-series on carbon credits from shrubs. Last time, we saw that landholders, project managers, corporate emitters and governments all benefit from forest regeneration.  It left a question: does the planet win too? 🌏 It won't surprise you to read, we can't answer that fully in one sitting. Even if you accept the underlying assumptions (e.g. that outback shrubs belong in ca

Hi there! Welcome to your climate data briefing – on a Monday for a change. (It needed some extra work over the weekend 👩🏻‍💻). In the last newsletter, we looked at Australia’s particularly low threshold for what counts as ‘forest’. (Catch up here). That raised bigger questions about one of the country’s main carbon levers: regenerating forest. How is forest growth monitored, and rewarded? Finding the answers to these seemingly simple questions led to an endless labyrinth of complexities.

Good Friday evening, and welcome to your climate data briefing. Not long ago, I was digging through New Zealand’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory when I noticed our neighbour’s definition of 'forest' is very different from ours. In Australia, you could get lost in a forest and still see over the trees. Our threshold for what counts as forest is low — and that raises questions about how we count carbon and who benefits. Let's take a look. When Is a Forest a Forest? Here’s a patch of western NSW e

Hi, and welcome to your climate data briefing! Today’s briefing partly explains my recent absence.👩‍🚀 Back in May, I shared the launch of Major Facilities data on OnlyFacts (catch up here if you missed it). Now, version 2.0 is live. Woot! 🥳 The big improvement is you can drill into facilities and their corporate owners by industry. That means you can compare performance among peers, and spot the best and worst performers within each group. For a refresher on the Safeguard mechanism and

Hi and welcome back to your climate data briefing. After a short hiatus, while we rolled out some major upgrades at onlyfacts.io (more on that soon), the prodigal briefing returns! 👩‍🚀 To make it up to you and claw back lost time, this one’s a double banger, with two spotlight stories. 🙈 First, a new addition to OnlyFacts - Australia’s exported emissions. Key takeaway: they’re three times higher than what we emit at home. 🌊 Second, the marine heatwave driving South Australia’s algal bloo

This list of terms and definitions provides a reference to help you understand Major Facility data. For broader context, read the explainer: Introduction to Major Facility Emissions in Australia. ANZSIC levels Australian and New Zealand Standard Industrial Classification (ANZSIC) system, which groups industries based on major economic activities. * Division: The broadest level of industry categorisation. * Subdivision: The second level, breaking divisions into narrower sectors with similar

Hi! Welcome to your climate data briefing this Friday afternoon. Today’s newsletter has been in the works for a couple of weeks. Last month, we examined global trends in new coal-fired power plants. (Recap: new coal capacity has fallen to a 20-year low — catch up here.) This time, we turn to the other half of the picture: coal mines. Headline: While Australia may have stopped building new coal-fired power stations, we're still digging deep when it comes to coal mining. Let’s take a look. V

Hi, and welcome to your climate data briefing—on the eve of the federal election! We’ve been deep in the weeds of emissions data from Australia’s biggest industrial polluters. The first version of our dataset is now live on the site. We’d love you to explore it—and tell us what you think. The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) publishes this data but our goal is to make it more accessible—clear, useful, and easier to navigate for non-specialists. Below is a quick rundown of what’s available and wh