Submission to Department of Climate Change RE: Inaccurate Figures for Wood in Landfill

Sunday, 01 March 2009 00:00

NTPSG members A3P, NAFI and TDANSW recently made a joint submission to the Department of Climate Change to request that the default figures cited in a number of their documents reflect the latest research by the CRC for Greenhouse Accounting and the NSW Department of Primary Industries. The default figures significantly overestimate the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from wood in landfills. With the waste sector to be included in the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme from the start date in 2010, these incorrect default figures are starting to have a distorting effect on policy and financial decision-making. This may result in increased greenhouse emissions – not less! Read the Submission on the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (Measurement) Determination 2008 (PDF, 0.2MB)