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Shipping and Oil: Carbon Emissions

Question for Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

UIN 10547, tabled on 18 January 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if she will make an estimate of the level of carbon emissions attributable to (a) the maritime sector and (b) the import and export of oil in each year since 2010.

Answered on

23 January 2024

The Department has not produced estimates of greenhouse gas emissions specifically from the maritime sector or from the import and export of oil. However, it publishes UK territorial greenhouse gas emissions statistics where particular sources of maritime and oil industry emissions can be identified.

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