Carbon Emissions: EU Countries

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what recent estimate he has made of the projected reduction in carbon dioxide emissions relative to 1990 levels that will be achieved by 2010 by (a) the UK and (b) the EU, excluding the impact of the EU emissions trading scheme. (242492)

Estimates of the projected annual emissions of carbon dioxide to 2010 are shown in the following tables for (a) the UK and (b) the EU. The reductions shown are relative to 1990 levels and for the UK exclude the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. However, there are no figures available for the EU without inclusion of the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, therefore those presented include this.

*(a) UK Carbon dioxide emission projections 1990-2010*
Million tonnes CO₂
	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
UK CO₂ emissions, central assumption without ETS	592.4	599.1	582.0	567.1	559.3	549.8	571.0	548.1	549.9	540.3	548.6
Percentage CO₂ emissions reduction w/out EU ETS relative to base year of 1990	n/a	1.1	-1.8	-4.3	-5.6	-7.2	-3.6	-7.5	-7.2	-8.8	-7.4

*Million tonnes CO*₂
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
UK CO₂ emissions, central assumption without ETS	559.4	542.7	554.7	555.1	555.2	554.5	543.7	541.3	534.2	528.2
Percentage CO₂ emissions reduction w/out EU ETS relative to base year of 1990	-5.6	-8.4	-6.4	-6.3	-6.3	-6.4	-8.2	-8.6	-9.8	-10.8
Source: UEP 2008, DECC

*(b) Energy related CO*₂*emissions by the EU in the reference scenario*
GIGA tonnes CO₂
Region	1990	2000	2006	2020
EU emissions with ETS according to IEA Reference Scenario	4.04	3.80	3.94	3.95
Percentage CO₂ emissions reduction with EU ETS (relative to base year of 1990	n/a	-5.9	-2.5	-2.2
Source: IEA ‘World Energy Outlook’, 2008

Volume 485: debated on Thursday 18 December 2008