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4 November 2009
Researchers from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics have found the Australian tourism industry is responsible for generating a substantial amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
The group developed a method to measure the carbon footprint of tourism and applied it to measure the footprint for 2003-04 – the latest year for which a full data set was available.
Their findings show the tourism industry directly generated 26.3 million tonnes of GHG emissions, 4.7 per cent of the total Australian industry and household emissions for that year.
Tourism's indirect emissions were estimated at 28.1 million tonnes.
The findings give an indication of the possible impacts that policy measures, such as the Australian government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will have on costs in the industry.
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