Greenhouse gas emissions, UK
The latest year is provisional
The UK's territorial greenhouse gas emissions each year since 1990, in million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. The latest year is provisional.
Total greenhouse gas emissions
366.6 MtCO₂e
2025 · provisional
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:14 UTCSource: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
36 periods, newest first
| Period | Total greenhouse gas emissions |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 366.6 MtCO₂e |
| 2024 | 373.4 MtCO₂e |
| 2023 | 383.9 MtCO₂e |
| 2022 | 404.0 MtCO₂e |
| 2021 | 422.2 MtCO₂e |
| 2020 | 407.5 MtCO₂e |
| 2019 | 447.5 MtCO₂e |
| 2018 | 464.1 MtCO₂e |
| 2017 | 471.8 MtCO₂e |
| 2016 | 483.2 MtCO₂e |
| 2015 | 510.7 MtCO₂e |
| 2014 | 530.7 MtCO₂e |
| 2013 | 573.0 MtCO₂e |
| 2012 | 585.1 MtCO₂e |
| 2011 | 567.8 MtCO₂e |
| 2010 | 612.0 MtCO₂e |
| 2009 | 596.9 MtCO₂e |
| 2008 | 652.7 MtCO₂e |
| 2007 | 674.8 MtCO₂e |
| 2006 | 688.3 MtCO₂e |
| 2005 | 692.3 MtCO₂e |
| 2004 | 699.4 MtCO₂e |
| 2003 | 703.0 MtCO₂e |
| 2002 | 694.9 MtCO₂e |
| 2001 | 716.3 MtCO₂e |
| 2000 | 712.3 MtCO₂e |
| 1999 | 710.7 MtCO₂e |
| 1998 | 738.8 MtCO₂e |
| 1997 | 739.7 MtCO₂e |
| 1996 | 763.5 MtCO₂e |
| 1995 | 742.7 MtCO₂e |
| 1994 | 748.7 MtCO₂e |
| 1993 | 761.4 MtCO₂e |
| 1992 | 780.4 MtCO₂e |
| 1991 | 800.6 MtCO₂e |
| 1990 | 790.8 MtCO₂e |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-territorial-greenhouse-gas-emissions-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 31 October 2026, 11:11 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/provisional-uk-greenhouse-gas-emissions-statistics-2025SHA-256 7babe24813e249551c3f28919e1ad3a95df2c372add0a9fb8e0747866d75b40a · 21,741 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69ccdb9ab50f8f8dfb8559b3/2025-provisional-greenhouse-gas-emissions-statistics-data-tables.xlsxSHA-256 9d0f88b7e929ce319592a3ad524497ac49f2e02e2e05770dc5261025425ef413 · 303,113 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 31 October 2026, 11:14 UTC Run at 31 October 2026, 11:14 UTC; 36 of 36 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-10-31T11:11:59Z; 2 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 2 of 2 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 36 of 36 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 36 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 36 of 36 figures match exactly after downloading 2 source file(s) again (2 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2025 ended 304 days before retrieval (limit 500), from 2025 UK greenhouse gas emissions: provisional figures - data tables |
| Pass | Final figures agree | 35 of 35 figures match tables 1.1 and 1.2 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6982294819d3abdb495f37ce/final-greenhouse-gas-emissions-tables-2024.xlsx (1990 to 2024), within 0.000001 MtCO2e |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-territorial-greenhouse-gas-emissions-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Territorial emissions: those produced within the UK's borders, in million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, with each of the seven greenhouse gases weighted by its global warming potential.
- DESNZ revises the whole series each February when the UK's greenhouse gas inventory is updated, so figures can differ from earlier releases. The latest year is a provisional estimate, made from provisional energy statistics; agriculture, waste and land use are estimated from the year before.