Adapt NSW and the Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) have launched an online dashboard to track the State’s greenhouse gas emissions from the past and into the future.
Launching its Net Zero Emissions Dashboard, Adapt NSW said the interactive Dashboard was the first in Australia to track emissions at a local government area (LGA) level.
It said it would help Government and the public understand how each economic sector and LGA contributed to emissions.
“This level of insight helps to support regional actions by industry, business, local council, and State Government towards achieving our net zero emissions goal by 2050,” Adapt NSW said.
“Scientists from the NSW Government developed the dashboard using published data from the National Greenhouse Accounts and from the team’s economy-wide emission projections to 2050 and local-scale emissions for NSW,” it said.
“The public can access data and visualise LGA and sector-specific greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2050 through the online SEED Environmental Data Portal.”
Adapt NSW said the ability to project future emissions levels from 2020 to 2050 (relative to 2005 levels) was also helping policymakers and councils track progress and highlight areas for improvement.
It said the future emissions projections and local-scale emissions by LGA presented in the Dashboard were developed by the DPE’s NSW Net Zero Emissions Modelling Program.
“Emissions are presented by financial year and by sector, using the sector definitions from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, to be consistent with the NSW Greenhouse Gas Inventory,” Adapt NSW said.
The Net Zero Emissions Dashboard can be accessed at this PS News link.
