The Queensland LNP government, having already scrapped the state’s renewable and climate targets, is now refusing to even count emissions, after pulling back from another nationwide commitment to collect data on transport infrastructure emissions.
The state has declared it will not collect data on carbon embodied in the materials used to build infrastructure needed for transportation, pulling out of a project approved last year as part of a ministerial forum with other states.
A statement from Brendan Morris, a spokesperson for transport minister Brent Mickelberg, says the state will continue to “meet applicable legislative and regulatory obligations.”
“The Crisafulli Government is committed to simplifying our approach to delivering infrastructure – not complicating it – to avoid unnecessary costs and to respect taxpayers’ money,” Morris said in an email.
Ministers from the other states and territories in Australia, and the Commonwealth, agreed last Friday to publish the new National Embodied Carbon Databook on the federal transport department website.
