Virus drops Aust emissions to 1998 levels

By Callum Godde
Updated August 31 2020 - 12:11am, first published 12:05am
Major reductions in jet fuel use by airlines helped reduce Australia's carbon emissions.
Major reductions in jet fuel use by airlines helped reduce Australia's carbon emissions.

COVID-19 has helped push down Australia's carbon emissions to pre-2000 levels in an inadvertent environmental fillip from the pandemic.

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