Annual Reports
ScotGov: Data published last week in the Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1990-2006 shows the challenge facing Scotland as it strives to reduce its long term emissions.
While the figures show Scottish emissions of greenhouse gases have fallen by 13.4% against a 1990/1995 baseline there was a 5.4% increase in emissions between 2005 and 2006. The increase is principally due to a shift to more coal-fired electricity production during this period as a result of fluctuating gas prices.
As a party to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UK is required to submit to the UNFCCC an annual inventory of greenhouse gas emissions. UK inventories produced for 1998 and subsequent years have been disaggregated to provide estimated emissions data for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Press release ~ Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: 1990-2006 ~ UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) ~ ScotGov - environment ~ ScotGov – Renewable energy ~ EU-China initiative to demonstrate near zero emissions from coal in China ~ Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership ~ UK-India Study to Identify the Barriers to Low Carbon Technology Transfer ~ IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D programme ~ Environment Transformation Fund
