据能源世界网5月31日墨尔本报道，澳大利亚政府周一表示，2020年，随着风能和太阳能的增长、冠状病毒封锁对运输的打击以及“高更”大型液化天然气项目碳捕获量的增加，澳大利亚的碳排放量下降了5%。
该国工业部在一份季度更新报告中表示，去年二氧化碳当量的排放量比前一年减少了2600万吨，降至4.99亿吨。
这使得该国的排放量将2005年的水平低20%，而《巴黎协定》规定的目标是到2030年将排放量比2005年的水平低26%-28%，以帮助遏制全球变暖。
澳大利亚能源部长安格斯·泰勒（Angus Taylor）在一份声明中表示，我们有望实现并超过2030年的巴黎目标。
然而，与美国和日本等国家不同，作为世界上最富裕国家中人均排放量最大的国家，澳大利亚拒绝为2030年设定更为雄心勃勃的目标。
气候委员会研究员Tim Baxter表示，其他国家正在加快步伐，但我们却无处可寻。
加上未来的排放量，保守派政府本月为一座新的燃气发电站提供了6亿澳元，批评人士曾表示，这是不必要的。
电力行业仍是澳大利亚最大的污染源，占排放总量的三分之一，尽管由于燃煤和燃气发电的减少，其排放量下降了4.9%。
第三大污染源交通部门的排放量下降了12%，由于新冠疫情的封锁令汽车无法上路，飞机停航。
该国政府表示，在过去四年中，随着新液化天然气工厂的启动，液化天然气工厂的排放量一直在增长，但随着Gorgon液化天然气工厂长期延迟的碳捕获和存储项目的启动，排放量有所下降。
郝芬 译自 能源世界网
原文如下：
Australia's carbon emissions drop 5 per cent in 2020
Australia's carbon emissions fell by 5 per cent in 2020 with growth in wind and solar energy, a hit to transport from coronavirus lockdowns, and a rise in carbon capture at the huge Gorgon LNG project, the government said on Monday.
Emissions fell by 26 million tonnes to 499 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in 2020 from the previous year, the Department of Industry said in a quarterly update.
That put the country's emissions at 20 per cent below 2005 levels, compared with its target under the Paris Agreement to cut emissions by 26 per cent to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 to help curb global warming.
"We are on track to meet and beat our 2030 Paris target," Australian Energy Minister Angus Taylor said in a statement.
However Australia, the largest per-capita emitter among the world's richest nations, has refused to set a more ambitious target for 2030, unlike countries such as the United States and Japan.
"Other countries are stepping up, but we are nowhere to be seen," said Climate Council researcher Tim Baxter.
Adding to future emissions, the conservative government this month provided A$600 million for a new gas-fired power station, which critics have said would not be needed.
The power sector remained Australia's biggest polluter, accounting for one-third of emissions, even with a 4.9 per cent drop in emissions due to a decline in coal-fired and gas-fired generation.
Emissions from the transport sector, the third-largest polluter, fell 12 per cent as COVID-19 lockdowns kept cars off the roads and planes on the ground.
Emissions from liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants, which had grown over the previous four years with the start-up of new LNG plants, fell as a long-delayed carbon capture and storage project at the Gorgon LNG plant cranked up, the government said.
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