Mr. Alan W. WilliamsTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list estimated total emissions of carbon dioxide for the United Kingdom in each year from 1980 to the present. [15583]
Mr. ClappisaonThe estimated United Kingdom annual emissions of carbon dioxide from 1980 to 1994 are:
Million tonnes of carbon 1980 163 1981 157 1982 153 1983 151 1984 147 1985 153 1986 157 1987 158 1988 158 1989 155 1990 158 1991 160 1992 155 1993 151 1994 1149 1 Provisional. Data on UK carbon dioxide emissions are published annually in the "Digest of Environmental Protection and Water Statistics" and "UK Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory". Estimates from 1990 use the methodology developed by the intergovernmental panel on climate change: those for earlier years are on a comparable, but slightly different, basis used by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. Figures on the IPCC' s methodology are not available for the earlier years.