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Article: UK climate change sustainable development indicator: 2008 greenhouse gas emissions, provisional figures.
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- March 26, 2009
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M2 PRESSWIRE-26 March 2009-UK Government: UK climate change sustainable development indicator: 2008 greenhouse gas emissions, provisional figures(C)1994-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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DECC today publishes provisional 2008 estimates of UK greenhouse gas emissions.
Greenhouse gas emissions - headline results
* In 2008, UK emissions of the basket of six greenhouse gases(1) covered by the Kyoto Protocol were provisionally estimated to be 623.8 million tonnes carbon dioxide equivalent(2). This was 2 per cent lower than the 2007 figure of 636.6 million tonnes.
* Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the main greenhouse gas, accounting ...