Climate Change: United Kingdom Greenhouse Gas Emissions

First of all I am going to do a little introduction of the most important results related with the area of greenhouse gas emissions in UK. I have chosen to do this little report information of the year 2009 because the data available was in final figures. In order to achieve the Kyoto Protocol according with the National Statistics made by the Department of Energy & Climate Change of UK the emissions of this country are decreasing in all possible sectors in fact this was 8,7 lower than the year 2008. It is important to mention that the GHG with a higher percentage of GHG emission is the Carbon Dioxide (CO2) with a 84%.

The overall decrease that I mentioned before has three main factors which are the fall in energy consumption across al sectors, an increase in the use of nuclear power rather than coal and natural gas for electricity generation. The total GHG emissions of UK in million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent are 566,3. In accordance with international reporting and carbon trading protocols, each of these gases is weighted by its global warming potential (GWP), so that total greenhouse gas emissions can be reported on a consistent basis.

Lets focused on the topic that I am covering today which is the GHG emissions divided into different sectors. It is shown in the different graphs.

As we can see in the following table since 1990 the emissions (MtCO2e) from the energy supply sector and from business have reduced by 28 per cent and 24 per cent respectively however it is and significant figure from my point of view which is the slightly  reduce of just a 3% in terms of residential emissions. I know that it is not the sector that release more GHG emissions however for me it is hard to see that in 20 years the behavior of the consumers does not have change.

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