Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate she has made of the rate of reduction in carbon dioxide emissions in each of the last five years.
The UK Greenhouse Gas Inventory publishes assessments of annual greenhouse gas emissions. The table below shows the annual percentage change in the UK’s emissions of carbon dioxide for the years 2014-2018. Data are not yet available for 2019 emissions.
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
Change in UK carbon dioxide emissions from previous year | -8.4% | -3.9% | -5.5% | -3.3% | -2.4% |