Waterborne transport includes coastal shipping, fishing vessels, military shipping, and other shipping. Aviation includes civil aviation and military aviation. Other includes aircraft support vehicles, mobile air-conditioning and transport refrigeration F-gases, lubricant use in engines, urea use in transport, refrigerated transport machinery and seaport machinery.
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Passenger cars were responsible for more than half of the transportation emissions in the United Kingdom in 2023. Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) were the second-largest contributors to transportation emissions that year, followed by light duty vehicles (LDVs). The transportation sector is the main source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United Kingdom.
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