March 2011
Change in UK greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 Increase / decrease in greenhouse emissions by sector, 1990-2009 (Million tonnes of CO2 equivalent)
International Aviation
Planes & boats - getting worse
Analysis © The UK Carbon Census Ltd 2011
+17.2
Shipping
+1.5
Transport
+0.1
Residential
(2.2)
Public sector
Everything else - getting better
(5.9)
Change in land use
(8.0)
Agriculture
(13.5)
Business
(26.5)
Waste Mgmt
(41.1)
Industrial Process Energy Supply
Cars & houses - getting nowhere
(43.9) (77.1)
↑ BETTER SINCE 1990↑
↑ WORSE ↑
Source: 2009 CO2 emissions by sector as published in March 2011 by the Department of Energy and Climate Change. www.decc.gov.uk