"These figures for 2007 are good news, which show that we are making continued progress in reducing our emissions against the 1990 baseline. However, the data also demonstrates the size of the task now facing us - and the rest of the world - in reducing emissions."
Stewart Stevenson , Minister for Climate Change
September 2009
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 18.7 per cent and in 2007 equalled a total of 56.9 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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.
The greenhouse gas emissions data for all four countries of the UK will be published through the National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (NAEI) website on September 24, 2009.
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