Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have dropped, showing signs of a turning point in the country's most polluting sectors.
Emissions are at their lowest point since the COVID pandemic shut down the economy, dropping 2.1 per cent over the year to December 2025, according to the latest national greenhouse gas inventory update.
The significant drop is largely driven by clean energy replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation, but transport emissions also continued to fall, year-on-year, for the second quarter in a row since the pandemic.
That drop doesn't yet account for the surging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) since the start of the year.
The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries reported EV sales have doubled in the past year, hitting a record high of 20 per cent of new car sales in May.
That figure more than doubles again if you include hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, with the share of all electrified vehicle sales hitting 46 per cent.
