Australia is a carbon pig

Monday 5 October 2026

If you are sceptical about Australia’s energy transition, which I am less so than LVO, these charts will really piss you off.

The following data uses EDGAR, the EU carbon tracker, World Bank and Climate Change Authority data.

How is Australia’s gross carbon emissions abatement going? We are an absolute bludger.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.