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Article: UK climate change sustainable development indicator: 2007 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, provisional figures.
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- March 27, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-27 March 2008-UK Government: UK climate change sustainable development indicator: 2007 Greenhouse Gas Emissions, provisional figures(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Defra today publishes provisional 2007 estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions - headline results
* In 2007, UK emissions of the basket of six greenhouse gases(1) covered by the Kyoto Protocol were provisionally estimated to be 639.4 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent(2). This was 2 per cent lower than the 2006 figure of 652.3 million tonnes.
* Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas, accounting ...