Carbon Emissions
(asked on 14th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether her Department has made a detailed assessment of the effect of the Government's energy policy carbon dioxide emissions in the UK in each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement.
Provisional statistics for 2015 indicate that greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 38% since 1990 and 17% since 2010.
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions since 1990
Units: MtCO2e | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015(p) |
Emissions reduction since 1990 | -24% | -31% | -28% | -30% | -35% | -38% |
Source: DECC (2016) Provisional UK greenhouse gas emissions national statistics 2015
A significant proportion of this reduction is being driven by policies. For those policies where we have been able to estimate the emissions impacts, annual estimates are detailed in Annex D of our Energy and Emissions Projections, available at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/updated-energy-and-emissions-projections-2015.