Too keen to sell fossil fuels

July 9, 2026

Australia might be, as Ross Gittins suggests, at the forefront of that global renewable energy change. And that is wonderful. But Australia ranks fifth of 15 countries responsible for nearly 80 per cent of global oil and gas extraction since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015.

Since 2017 Japan’s gas use for electricity generation has fallen 37 per cent. Japanese companies are selling LNG they buy from us to the developing parts of Asia. This undermines their shift to renewables.

In 2024 WA’s Labor government commissioned a Deloitte report to support the idea that LNG exports helped “reduce emissions”. When it suggested the opposite, the Cook government suppressed it.

Sadly, Australia is currently too keen to sell fossil fuels to be the world leader we need in this battle for our children’s lives.

References: 80% https://oilchange.org/publications/paris-agreement-planet-wreckers/ gas consumption down and Japanese on selling https://www.springmountadvisory.com.au/japan-australia-gas-trade

Deloitte report https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/wa-government-gas-industry-energy-transition-deloitte-report/105970038