About this data
- Consumption-based emissions (the UK's carbon footprint) are estimated by Defra with a model of trade between countries and industries, developed by the University of Leeds. They include emissions from households' own fuel use, such as heating and driving, and emissions from international aviation and shipping to serve UK consumers. They are less certain than territorial emissions.
- Territorial emissions: greenhouse gases emitted within the UK, net of removals by forests and soils. Emissions from international aviation and shipping aren't included, as under international reporting rules.
- Gases are combined in carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), weighting each by how much it warms the climate over 100 years compared with CO2.
This chart appears in Greenhouse gas emissions.