David Anderson – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change
The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Anderson on 2016-04-14.
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.
Andrea Leadsom
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.
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