Carbon Emissions

(asked on 3rd March 2020) - View Source

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

What recent assessment he has made of trends in the rate of reduction in UK emissions.


Answered by
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Kwasi Kwarteng
This question was answered on 3rd March 2020

In the UK we have shown it is possible to achieve economic growth while reducing emissions. Since 1990, we have cut our emissions by 43%, while growing our economy by more than three quarters - decarbonising faster than any other G20 country.

Between 2017 and 2018 alone, we reduced emissions in the power sector by 6.6%.

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