Scotland’s Carbon Footprint 1998-2021
Estimates of Scotland's greenhouse gas emissions on a consumption basis for the period 1998 to 2021.
There have been no major changes in the data and methodologies used in this version of Scotland’s Carbon Footprint.
Figure 8: The latest release is very similar to the previous year’s release, although some appreciable increases in emissions are seen in recent years.
Scotland’s Carbon Footprint. Comparison of 1998-2020 and 1998-2021 series. Values in MtCO2e
Revisions between the 1990-2012 and 1990-2021 publications
Since the carbon footprint was first published, successive releases have used different versions of the UK MRIO model. The 2012 release used a 2-region model which only distinguished the UK and the Rest of the World as trade regions. The 2013, 2015 and 2016 releases used a four region model, distinguishing imports from Europe, China and the Rest of World, using trade data from the Eora global MRIO. The 2017, 2018 and 2019 model adopted the same four regions but used trade data from the EXIOBASE MRIO. In this release, the UK MRIO model uses a 15 region configuration although this has been collapsed to a degree in the publication for clarity. The full 15 region detail is provided in a spreadsheet which accompanies this publication.