Queensland is still Australia's biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, according to the latest research released by the federal government.

Those emissions come mainly from coal and gas burned for electricity generation, transport and from land clearing, according to the annual National Greenhouse Accounts.

Coal-fired power remained the biggest source of Queensland's greenhouse gas emissions. Credit:Robert Rough

The information, released in May, shows Queensland contributes 28.3 per cent of Australia's national greenhouse emissions.

Queensland's carbon emissions increased 0.8 per cent between 2014 and 2015 to 152.1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.