§ Mr. CorbynTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the total carbon emissions in the United Kingdom for each of the past 10 years and his estimates of emissions for each year to 2010. [6603]
§ Angela EagleThe following total carbon emissions data for the UK for 1990 and subsequent years will be published on 11 July in the 19th Digest of Environmental Statistics:
Million tones 1990 168 1991 169 1992 164 1993 160 1994 159 1995 156 These totals are consistent with the methodology for calculating emissions developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the basis required for reporting emissions of carbon dioxide to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Totals calculated on this basis are not available for years before 1990.
335WProjected emissions were published in the UK's Second Report under the Climate Change Convention on the basis of the previous Administration's Climate Change programme. These were:
Million tonnes 2000 158 2005 169 2010 169 The Government is now developing policies and measures to meet our target of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 20 per cent. below 1990 levels by 2010 and a revised Climate Change programme will be prepared after the Kyoto Climate Change Conference in December.