Net emissions data for the land use, land use change and forestry sector in Queensland, Australia. In 2018, the sector contributed 22.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, representing 13% of the state's total emissions. The dataset is provided by the Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation and was last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in land-use sector emissions based on the reported 66% decrease between 2005 and 2018
- Model the contribution of forestry and land-use change to regional carbon budgets based on the 13% share of total state emissions
- Benchmark Queensland's LULUCF emissions against other Australian states based on its status as the largest source since 1990
Strengths
- Includes a key metric of 22.8 MtCO2e for net emissions in 2018
- Provides a clear time trend showing a 66% decrease in emissions between 2005 and 2018
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation (Queensland Government)
- Time Range
- 2005 to 2018
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-27 14:33:21.269408; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Queensland, Australia