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Written Question
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Tuesday 29th June 2021

Asked by: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative - Godalming and Ash)

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, if his Department will publish data on UK emissions (a) in total, (b) per PPP$ of GDP and (c) in comparison with each G20 country in each of the last five years.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan

BEIS publishes absolute GHG emissions estimates, on a territorial basis, annually. Our latest final version is here (to 2019) [1] and our latest provisional version is here (to 2020) [2].

BEIS does not publish anything directly related to emissions per PPP$ of GDP. There are other resources available online, including:

Not all G20 countries publish emissions estimates annually, so it is not possible to provide a direct comparison between the UK and all members of the G20. However, the statistical release accompanying our annual statistics publication referenced earlier (here, [8]), does contain an "International Comparison" section, on page 24, which sets out where UK emissions sit relative to other G20 countries. Additionally, the UNFCCC website contains National Inventory GHG submissions from each country here. [9]

References

[1] 2019 UK greenhouse gas emissions: final figures - statistical release - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/final-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics

[2] 2020 UK greenhouse gas emissions: provisional figures - statistical release - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-national-statistics

[3] Greenhouse gas emissions intensity, UK: 2018 provisional estimates

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/greenhousegasintensityprovisionalestimatesuk/2018provisionalestimates

[4] Atmospheric emissions: greenhouse gas emissions intensity by industry

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/datasets/ukenvironmentalaccountsatmosphericemissionsgreenhousegasemissionsintensitybyeconomicsectorunitedkingdom

[5] UK Environmental Accounts: 2021

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/ukenvironmentalaccounts/2021

[6] The decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions: UK evidence

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/compendium/economicreview/october2019/thedecouplingofeconomicgrowthfromcarbonemissionsukevidence

[7] The World Bank Data Indicators

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/

[8] 2019 UK greenhouse gas emissions: final figures - statistical release

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957887/2019_Final_greenhouse_gas_emissions_statistical_release.pdf

[9] UNFCC National Inventory Submissions 2021

https://unfccc.int/ghg-inventories-annex-i-parties/2021