Manya Rathore
Research expert covering India
Transportation emissions in the UK - Statistics & Facts
In 2023, the United Kingdom became the world’s first major economy to halve its emissions relative to 1990 levels. However, emissions from the country’s transportation sector have seen little change in recent decades. In the mid-2010s, transportation replaced electricity supply as the UK’s single largest climate polluter, with mobility on land, sea, and in the air now accounting for roughly 30 percent of total emissions. The UK now faces the challenge of decarbonizing this highly polluting sector to meet its climate ambitions.
