Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 29th June 2020) - View Source
Questioner
Ed Davey Portrait
Ed Davey
(Liberal Democrat - Kingston and Surbiton)

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much carbon his Department’s activities have produced in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Kwasi Kwarteng Portrait
Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 7th July 2020

The table below shows how much carbon the Department’s activities have produced in each of the last four reporting years since the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy was formed in 2016.

2016/17

2017/18

2018/19

2019/20

Emissions tCO2e

2,529.24*

3,231.08

2,607.31

2,465.37

*Emissions for 2016/17 are based on energy consumed at the Department’s headquarters building (1 Victoria Street, London) and do not include emissions from other activities.

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