“Emissions are coming down in Australia”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms Vanstone's claim is misleading. Latest federal government figures suggest that although greenhouse gas emissions have fallen over the past 10 years, emissions started trending upwards again about four years ago. The upturn, since 2014, has coincided with the Abbott government's removal of the carbon tax. Also, while emissions from electricity production have been falling, the decrease has been outweighed over the past four years by rising emissions in other sectors of the economy, such as ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Amanda Vanstone (Former Liberal minister) made this claim around 3 December 2018. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 17 December 2018, 14 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
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