Fresh figures from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs reveal a 21% decline in the UK’s carbon footprint in the 10 years to 2017.
The data shows that the country’s carbon footprint peaked at 977m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents in 2007, a figure that dropped to 772m tonnes in 2017.
Between 2016 and 2017, the latest data available, the UK’s carbon footprint fell by 3%.
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