Railways: Carbon Emissions
(asked on 6th September 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an estimate of the level of carbon emission from rail haulage in each year since 2010.
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publish emissions data for the rail network each year. The available data for freight emissions between April 2011 to March 2022 is provided below.
Year | Total freight traction CO2 equivalent emissions (kilotonnes) |
April 2011 to March 2012 | 545 |
April 2012 to March 2013 | 636 |
April 2013 to March 2014 | 621 |
April 2014 to March 2015 | 628 |
April 2015 to March 2016 | 559 |
April 2016 to March 2017 | 525 |
April 2017 to March 2018 | 508 |
April 2018 to March 2019 | 476 |
April 2019 to March 2020 | 493 |
April 2020 to March 2021 | 437 |
April 2021 to March 2022 | 457 |