UK: CO2 emissions projection 2040

In recent decades the United Kingdom has been shifting away from coal-fired power and transitioning to clean energy sources. This has seen carbon dioxide emissions in the UK drop by nearly 50 percent compared to 1990 levels. This trend is expected to continue in the coming decades, with projections showing that total greenhouse gas emissions will reduce by a further 17 percent by 2040 to 265 million metric tons of CO2.

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Release date

December 2021

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Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2020 to 2040

Special properties

Net Zero Strategy baseline scenario based on emissions estimates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Assessment Report 5 with feedback global warming potentials

Supplementary notes

Based on central estimates of economic growth and fossil fuel prices. Contains all agreed policies where decisions on policy design are sufficiently advanced to allow robust estimates of impact (i.e. including “planned” policies).

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