Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2023

Official statistics showing emissions of greenhouse gases in Scotland over the period 1990 to 2023.


The Scottish Government’s Climate Change Plan was published in February 2018 presenting a strategy to reduce emissions over the period to 2032.  The modelling activity supporting this plan used a modified version of the sectoral categories used in the Scottish Greenhouse Gas Emissions publication.  The following table presents the latest Scottish emissions data using these alternative categories.

Annex B: Table 1.  Scottish GHG emissions using Climate Change Plan emissions categories, All values shown in MtCO2e.

Sector

1990

2022

2023

1990-2023

2022-2023

Change

% Change

% Change

Change

Agriculture

8.6

7.5

7.5

-1.1

-13.0%

0.0

-0.1%

Buildings

11.2

7.8

7.7

-3.5

-31.0%

-0.1

-1.6%

Electricity supply

14.7

1.7

1.0

-13.8

-93.4%

-0.8

-44.0%

Industry

19.2

8.6

8.0

-11.2

-58.2%

-0.6

-6.6%

LULUCF

6.0

-0.1

0.5

-5.5

-91.0%

0.6

-971.2%

Transport

15.1

13.0

13.1

-2.0

-13.0%

0.1

1.1%

Waste Management

6.3

1.7

1.7

-4.6

-73.3%

-0.1

-3.2%

Net emissions

81.2

40.3

39.6

-41.6

-51.3%

-0.8

-1.9%

 

 

 

 

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