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Drop in greenhouse gas emissions from UK residents and businesses
Bristol Post
|October 27, 2025
PROVISIONAL ONS DATA SHOWS FALL OF 0.5% FOR 2024
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(JOHN GILES/PA WIRE)
GREENHOUSE gas emissions generated by UK residents and businesses both at home and abroad fell by 0.5% in 2024, provisional figures show.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday that the UK’s so-called “residential basis’ emissions were 476 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) in 2024.
This was 43.3% below levels in 1990 - the first year the ONS has data for.
Residence basis emissions cover those generated by British residents and businesses regardless of where they occur geographically.
The 0.5% fall from 2023 continues a general downward trend since the data time series began in 1990.
This story is from the October 27, 2025 edition of Bristol Post.
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