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Climate change and energy

CO₂, NO_x, SO₂, PM₁₀, emissions and output, 1990 to 2008

CO₂, NO_x SO₂, PM₁₀emissions since:

1990

2003

Manufacturing accounts for roughly 12 per cent of UK Gross Value Added (monetary output), employs about 10 per cent of UK workers and is responsible for 24 per cent of UK carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Manufacturing GVA rose by 6 per cent between 1990 and 2008. However, reductions in emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) by 25 per cent, nitrogen oxides (NOx) by 49 per cent, particulates (PM10) by 52 per cent and sulphur dioxide (SO2) by 69 per cent, were made over the same period.

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Updated: 30 July 2010

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