Greenhouse gas emissions in Scotland 1990-2019
Scotland produced the equivalent of 47.8 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2019. This was a decrease of 2.2 percent compared with 2018 levels, and an overall drop of approximately 44 percent from 1990 levels. The UK produced a total of 455 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, and it is estimated that emissions in 2020 dropped considerably as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
