Datasets / UK's Carbon Footprint 1990 to 2009


UK's Carbon Footprint 1990 to 2009

Published By Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Issued about 10 years ago

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final

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

Latest data on the UK’s carbon dioxide (CO2) footprint shows a continuation of the decrease in carbon dioxide emissions. Between 2008 and 2009, the UK’s carbon dioxide footprint fell by 9 per cent. This follows a steady rise of 35 per cent between 1995 and 2005, leaving the footprint in 2009 some 20 per cent higher than it was in 1990.