UK households produce more CO2 than the entire transport sector combined

June 2011 Chart of the Month

This one hardly requires explanation, just look at the chart. Household CO2 is now greater than the entire transport sector. Bear in mind that the transport sector includes:

• All cars, trucks, motorbikes, vans, buses, HGVs, etc
• All trains, rolling stock, etc
• All domestic civil aviation and aircraft support vehicles
• All national shipping and fishing vessels
• All military transport

To me that’s astonishing. Add up the total CO2 emissions from all these things, and you come to a lower number than if you add up the emissions from electricity, gas and heating fuel that we use every day in our homes.

A footnote to the statistics maybe, but a footnote with huge implications: residential carbon is set to become the single biggest environmental pollution problem of our time.

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