Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Energy and Climate Change
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Richard Ottaway (Croydon South, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what progress has been made in reducing the UK's carbon dioxide emissions over the last five years.
Joan Ruddock (Minister of State, Department of Energy and Climate Change; Lewisham, Deptford, Labour)
The UK's carbon dioxide emissions were reduced by 2.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (MtCO2), or 0.4 per cent., between 2002 and 2007, the latest year for which we have final figures. On the basis of the provisional figure for 2008, UK CO2 emissions were reduced by 24.4 MtCO2, or 4.4 per cent., between 2003 and 2008.