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Good Sunday evening and welcome to your climate data briefing. ⚽️ This newsletter brings you one analysis, two quantish reads, and three data updates. A couple of weeks ago, Australia's quarterly greenhouse gas inventory was published. 📣 These updates are sometimes read in a simple way … emissions are up or down, and that is good or bad. A more useful way to understand them is why emissions are up or down. What drove the change? Let's dive in. 🤿 Headline Figures: Emissions are Fal

Good Monday afternoon, and welcome to your climate data briefing. 🍂 This newsletter brings you one big analysis — the final in our transport series (for now). In the last issue, we saw the birth of SUV nation.🫃🏻 Today, we're asking what that did to emissions. More specifically: did SUV Nation slow emissions cuts in Australia's new vehicles? When we started this research, I had a hunch that one slice of the market was doing most of the work dragging up the national average ... namely utes.

Good Sunday evening, and welcome to your climate data briefing. I hope you enjoyed a special ANZAC Day and a safe weekend. 🌺 This edition is looong overdue after getting bogged in data mud ... ironic given the topic was four-wheel drives. 🛻 If you're new here, hello and welcome! 👋 You can expect this weekly briefing to arrive every few weeks, hah. 🙃 (We're working on that). The format is 1 x analysis, 2 x quantish reads, and 3 x data updates. Today's analysis continues a transport emissio

Good Saturday afternoon, and welcome to your climate data briefing. We're closing out Week 7 of 2026 ... 12% of the year is through. 💘 Mortifyingly, this is our first briefing of the year. 🫥 To help make up for lost time, this one's a double whopper. 🍔 Maybe even a triple! We're picking up where we left off: what's driving transport emissions? Here's a quick recap: Part 1 * Transport is Australia's 2nd-largest emitting sector and on track to become the largest * Within transport, roads

Good Tuesday morning, and welcome to your climate data briefing. When I started writing this, we were 86% of the way through 2025. Now we're at 90%. 🫠 🚅 This edition marks a small milestone: number 50! 🎂 Thank you so much for reading and we hope you'll stay for the next 50. (Btw, the next stretch will see us settle into the long-promised weekly cadence. Yes, we may miss the target at times, but it's a goal with a plan. More than a ... ahem ... 'welcome outcome' 😒). Let's return to transp

Good Friday evening, and welcome to your climate data briefing. We're closing out week 43 of 2025 — the year is 81% done. 🎃 A quick rewind: in our last briefing (which was a few weeks ago, I'm sorry 😶‍🌫️), we unpacked factors driving emissions across four sectors. The takeaway: Beneath the headline numbers are real efficiency gains and changing habits, but also weaker economic activity in places and macro factors beyond our control. This week, we turn to transport. 🚙 Rather than jumping

Hi there! Welcome to your climate data briefing, this Tuesday lunchtime (AEST). 🥪 It's the 39th week of the year, which means we've hurtled into the final quarter of 2025. 🚄 Climate flooded last week’s news, most of it about the future. OnlyFacts focuses on the present. Here's how we'll address the big announcements: * 🌏 Climate risk assessment: It's a shopping list of indicators to track, using our model of timely and accessible data, metric-by-metric breakdowns and peer comparisons. Wat

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