Footnotes
1. 'Carbon' is used as shorthand for climate-relevant greenhouse gas emissions, which are customarily expressed in CO 2-equivalents.
2. See Annex 3 for further details.
3. http://www.sei.se/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Future/scotland_policybrief_emissions.pdf
4. 1990 for CO 2, CH4, N2O; 1995 for F-gases.
5. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/276273/0082934.pdf
6. On 28 October 2008 ( http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/ticc/or-08/tr08-1902.htm#Col883 ).
7. The carbon footprint is a major part of the 'ecological footprint' which is a National Performance Indicator ( http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/scotPerforms/indicators/ecologicalFootprint ).
8. For more detail on the suitability of this assessment for different uses see Section 2.6.
9. For the Input-Output tables, including the industrial categories, see: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Economy/Input-Output/Downloads
10. There is a difference of £2bn between the Draft Budget data and the expenditure that has been used for this carbon assessment. Non-cash items are excluded from the assessment where they do not lead to extra demand for goods and services. For details see Annex 4.
11. This assessment does not take into account the impact of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ( EUETS) which, by definition fixes the level of annual emissions. Decarbonising electricity generation will reduce actual emissions in Scotland, but the sale of unused permits will offset this reduction.
12. It is, of course, possible that lower government spending would be replaced by higher private-sector spending, making little change to overall emissions.
13. http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/data_greenbook_guidance.htm
14. http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/climatechange/uk/ukccp/pdf/greengas-policyevaluation.pdf
15. This report is available at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Research/by-topic/environment/social-research/publications
16. Ideally, one would use country-specificIO tables and emission factors for all imports but such detailed data is not available. The UKIO system is therefore used as a proxy, given that the rest of the UK is Scotland's largest trading partner.