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| Each overview in the Focus on series combines data from various sources to illustrate its topic, and provide links to further information. |
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UK Environmental Accounts are used to inform sustainable development policy, to model impacts of fiscal or monetary measures and to evaluate the environmental impacts of different sectors of the economy. Environmental Accounts are an extension of the National Accounts which are used to help analyse the wider impact of economic change.
Greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 8.7 per cent, on a National Accounts basis, since 1990. The main contributors of Greenhouse gas emissions are; the Electricity, Gas and water supply industry (25.4 per cent), Households (22.2 per cent) and Manufacturing (18.2 per cent). Energy consumption was 245.7 million tonnes of oil equivalent in 2004. This is 1.0 per cent higher than in 2003 and 11.4 per cent higher than in 1990. Environmental tax receipts in 2005 were £35.0 billion, 66.7 per cent of which came from taxes on hydrocarbon oils such as petrol and diesel.
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