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Greenhouse gas emissions still on the rise, data shows
David Curtin - Wednesday, April 18, 2012
AUSTRALIA'S greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise last year, driven by an increase in vehicle use and gases leaking from coalmines, federal government data show.
The nation released 546 million tonnes more carbon dioxide than its land mass absorbed last year, not including the data from changes in land use and logging, which is recorded separately.
This is a 0.6 per cent increase on the 2010 emissions figure, still below the nation's peak in 2008.
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