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UK and England's carbon footprint to 2023

Annual greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions relating to UK and England consumption.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
13 December 2012
Last updated:
24 July 2026
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  1. Correction to the geographical coverage of the data tables in the 'Summary_2023' tab of the ‘Carbon footprint for England dataset, 2001 to 2023’

  2. Correction to the text under Figure 4 about emissions associated with imports from the EU.

  3. Annual update.

  4. Annual update.

  5. Updated with 2021 figures.

  6. The summary_product tab has been amended to correct an error.

  7. A small error was spotted in the COICOP multipliers, which has now been fixed.

  8. Corrections to data in figure 7.

  9. Annual update to include data up to and including 2020.

  10. There was 1 incorrect figure on the summary product page for both GHG and CO2. These have now been corrected.

  11. Change of contact email address.

  12. New edition with data for the UK and England up to and including 2019.

  13. Amendment to time range in title of one of the attachments, plus typo amended in file name of that attachment.

  14. Error has been corrected.

  15. Minor revisions made to stats notice.

  16. Minor amendments made to statistical notice and now re-accessibility checked and fully compliant.

  17. 2021 publication including annual update with data for 2018.

  18. Amendments made to statistical release to ensure it is fully accessible.

  19. Broken links fixed.

  20. Replacement of ODS attachment with corrected version.

  21. Amendment to colour contrast of figure 2, text non justified and link fixed.

  22. Annual update.

  23. Annual update.

  24. Annual update.

  25. Annual update to publication.

  26. Headings amended on Data download consumption emissions 1997-2013 table.

  27. Embedded emissions spread sheet amended.

  28. slightly amended the download consumption emissions table

  29. Annual update to statistical notice and dataset.

  30. new edition published with data to 2012

  31. Amendment to Table 13.

  32. updated table 13 appended on indirect emissions to the supply chain

  33. New figures 1997-2011

  34. First published.

Documents

Carbon footprint for the UK and England to 2023

HTML

Carbon footprint for the UK dataset, 1990 to 2023

ODS, 95.7 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Carbon footprint for England dataset, 2001 to 2023

ODS, 71.3 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Carbon footprint for the UK and England to 2023: Figures and tables dataset

ODS, 35.8 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Spend-based emissions multipliers, 1997 to 2023

ODS, 216 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

UK consumption account methodology

PDF, 1010 KB, 31 pages

Details

This publication looks at the carbon footprint for the UK and England.

The carbon footprint refers to greenhouse gas emissions associated with the consumption spending of UK or England’s residents on goods and services, wherever in the world these emissions arise along the supply chain. It also includes emissions which are directly generated by UK or England’s households from the use of fossil fuels for private motoring and to heat homes. These emissions are often referred to as ‘consumption emissions’ to distinguish them from estimates relating to the emissions ‘produced’ within a country’s territory or economic sphere.

Historic Releases

The data presented in these historic statistical releases are superseded with each annual update as estimates relating to previous years are subject to revisions.

UK and England’s carbon footprint to 2022

UK and England’s carbon footprint to 2021

UK and England’s carbon footprint to 2020

The next release see statistics release calendar

Defra statistics: Waste and Recycling

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