Scottish Greenhouse Gas Statistics 2021

Official statistics showing emissions of greenhouse gases in Scotland over the period 1990 to 2021.


Annex B: Scottish greenhouse gas emissions using categories presented in Scotland’s climate change plan.

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.
Base-Year 2020 2021 Baseyear - 2021 2020-2021
Change % change Change % change
Agriculture 8.8 7.7 7.8 -0.9 -10.8% 0.1 1.9%
Electricity Generation 14.7 1.7 1.6 -13.1 -89.1% -0.1 -7.2%
Industry 19.5 10.2 9.6 -9.9 -50.7% -0.6 -6.0%
LULUCF 6.0 0.3 0.4 -5.7 -94.1% 0.0 12.3%
Buildings 11.6 8.5 9.0 -2.5 -21.8% 0.5 6.1%
Transport 14.9 10.7 11.6 -3.2 -21.8% 0.9 8.7%
Waste Management 6.5 1.5 1.5 -5.0 -76.2% 0.1 5.1%
Total net emissions 82.0 40.6 41.6 -40.4 -49.2% 1.0 2.4%

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Email: CCStatsModelling@gov.scot

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