Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen.
Since 1990 (1995 for F-gases, HFCs, PFCs and SF6) net greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland have reduced by 27.6 per cent, taking into account the effects of trading under the EU Emissions Trading System. In 2009 Scottish emissions were equivalent to a total of 51.0 million tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Encouraging as these figures are, on balance each person in Scotland currently contributes twice the global average in emissions.
The highest emitting sectors in Scotland are energy generation, transport and business, collectively accounting for around three quarters of all Scottish emissions.
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 inventory data from 1998 onwards has been disaggregated to provide detailed emissions data for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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