Carbon Emissions

(asked on 12th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what percentage of total global carbon emissions are attributable to UK consumption, including consumption relating to (a) domestic production and (b) imports.


Answered by
Emma Hardy Portrait
Emma Hardy
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 17th November 2025

Information about the Carbon footprint for the UK is published here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-carbon-footprint. Data are available up to 2022.

Defra does not hold information on total global carbon emissions.

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