Estimated Local Authority Level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions 2005 - current:

East Suffolk

1 What are we looking at?

The graphs that follow show the estimated greenhouse gas emissions for East Suffolk.

The graphs show territorial-based emissions: the emissions that come from activities carried out in the local authority.

The data used comes from the UK local authority and regional greenhouse gas emissions national statistics.

“These statistics provide the most reliable and consistent breakdown of greenhouse gas emissions across the country, using nationally available data sets going back to 2005. They cover territorial emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), although not fluorinated gases.”

See the guidance on using the data for more explanation.

2 Which are our biggest territorial emissions sources?

Figure 2.1: CO2e emissions by category

Figure 2.2: CO2e emissions by category

Figure 2.3 shows an interactive version of the same plot. Hovering over specific lines is useful for identifying the sources.

Figure 2.3: CO2e emissions by category

3 Which sources make up 50%, 75% or 95% of our territorial emissions?

We plot this for the first year in which we have data (2005).

Figure 3.1: Cumulative emissions by source

Now repeat this for the most recent year in which we have data (2021). Have they changed much?

Figure 3.2: Cumulative emissions by source

Table 3.1: CO2e emissions sorted by magnitude (East Suffolk, 2021

Source	Total kT CO2e	% of gross
Domestic Gas	219.7	14.9
Transport: (A roads)	216.7	14.7
Transport: (Minor roads)	151.7	10.3
Agriculture Livestock	104.8	7.1
Domestic Electricity	96.9	6.6
Industry 'Other'	84.8	5.7
Agriculture Soils	73.2	5.0
LULUCF Net Emissions: Cropland	61.0	4.1
Industry Gas	60.8	4.1
Domestic 'Other'	58.8	4.0
Industry Electricity	56.6	3.8
Commercial Electricity	47.1	3.2
LULUCF Net Emissions: Grassland	27.0	1.8
Waste: other	23.0	1.6
Agriculture 'Other'	16.1	1.1
Public Sector Gas	15.2	1.0
Agriculture Electricity	14.5	1.0
Commercial Gas	13.8	0.9
Waste: Landfill	13.4	0.9
Transport: other	12.9	0.9
LULUCF Net Emissions: Settlements	11.9	0.8
Public Sector Electricity	10.7	0.7
Transport: Diesel Railways	5.6	0.4
Agriculture Gas	2.8	0.2
Commercial 'Other'	1.0	0.1
LULUCF Net Emissions: Indirect N2O	0.6	0.0
Public Sector 'Other'	0.5	0.0
Industry: Large Industrial Installations	0.4	0.0
LULUCF Net Emissions: Wetlands	0.2	0.0
LULUCF Net Emissions: Forest land	-73.5	-5.0

4 Biogenic Net-Zero

It has been suggested that carbon sequestration through land-use and land-use change should be primarily used to offset ‘fast carbon cycle’ agricultural emissions rather than to offset (and thus enable) the continued burning of ‘slow carbon cycle’ fossil fuels. Figure 4.1 shows how close East Suffolk is to net-zero biogenic emissions under the definitions included in the plot. Note that this excludes emissions from Agricultural gas and electricity use which are assumed to be from the burning of fossil fuels and thus part of the slow carbon cycle.

Figure 4.1: How close are we to biogenic Net-Zero?

In the most recent year, East Suffolk had net biogenic emissions using the categories defined in the plot of 221 kT CO2e (negative emissions are 25 % of gross emissions). This value is positive, so emissions are larger than the level of sequestration (carbon capture). In this sense East Suffolk is not yet biogenic net-zero.

5 How do our current territorial emissions compare with other local authorities?

This plot compares current emissions with the mean across all other local authorities in England.

Figure 5.1: Current emissions compared to mean emissions for all other local authorities

For comparison in 2021:

• Mean total territorial emissions in comparator local authorities = 393.6 T CO2e
• East Suffolk total territorial emissions = 481.7 T CO2e

6 Data tables

The data tables used to create the plots - if you need the numbers.

6.1 Territorial emissions

## Using 'Total kT CO2e' as value column. Use 'value.var' to override

Table 6.1: Local authority territorial emissions (East Suffolk, kT CO2e)

Source	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Agriculture 'Other'	15.8	15.5	15.8	18.4	16.7	15.6	13.9	16.6	14.0	14.7	16.5	15.4	16.3	16.2	14.5	13.8	16.1
Agriculture Electricity	19.3	20.4	19.1	18.8	17.8	16.5	15.5	18.1	16.4	14.0	11.5	9.0	9.7	11.8	11.0	10.0	14.5
Agriculture Gas	2.5	2.1	1.8	1.7	1.6	1.7	1.4	1.7	2.0	1.8	1.8	1.6	1.9	2.3	1.7	2.0	2.8
Agriculture Livestock	127.4	114.3	111.4	111.6	114.6	110.3	104.3	104.4	103.8	106.9	106.7	105.1	104.2	103.7	107.1	108.5	104.8
Agriculture Soils	87.0	77.4	77.5	82.4	82.1	80.0	80.5	80.2	80.9	85.0	81.0	77.6	82.1	78.2	80.9	71.1	73.2
Commercial 'Other'	1.6	1.6	1.4	1.8	2.3	1.5	1.6	1.3	1.3	1.5	1.9	1.7	1.8	1.5	1.4	0.9	1.0
Commercial Electricity	199.7	211.6	198.1	195.4	185.1	171.5	160.5	187.4	170.0	145.4	118.8	92.0	71.9	44.9	48.1	37.9	47.1
Commercial Gas	26.8	22.8	19.7	18.2	17.0	18.5	15.6	18.5	22.1	19.4	19.4	19.9	19.2	12.8	10.5	10.4	13.8
Domestic 'Other'	73.5	74.3	68.9	73.7	71.2	79.5	66.4	65.4	68.6	61.5	61.7	61.7	60.2	62.2	59.6	58.1	58.8
Domestic Electricity	300.0	310.2	309.6	292.7	262.7	271.0	254.3	270.3	240.6	205.7	177.0	143.5	125.7	113.7	100.3	95.9	96.9
Domestic Gas	268.1	259.9	244.7	249.6	231.3	260.3	212.3	233.4	238.2	198.9	212.3	222.1	218.4	215.3	209.4	214.2	219.7
Industry 'Other'	100.3	92.5	90.9	72.9	70.5	98.0	77.7	79.5	90.0	99.8	85.9	85.5	91.3	95.4	83.4	82.1	84.8
Industry Electricity	151.3	160.4	150.1	148.1	140.2	129.9	121.6	142.0	128.8	110.1	90.0	72.0	73.4	83.8	59.8	54.8	56.6
Industry Gas	51.2	43.4	37.6	34.6	32.4	35.2	29.7	35.4	42.1	37.1	37.0	37.2	35.7	50.4	43.1	47.3	60.8
Industry: Large Industrial Installations	1.4	1.2	1.2	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.9	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.4
LULUCF Net Emissions: Cropland	51.8	53.5	52.1	50.5	55.0	55.8	56.2	57.3	56.6	56.6	56.2	58.0	58.5	58.9	59.5	60.5	61.0
LULUCF Net Emissions: Forest land	-71.5	-72.8	-73.5	-75.1	-76.1	-76.9	-77.4	-73.8	-75.4	-76.1	-74.6	-75.0	-75.1	-75.1	-74.6	-74.1	-73.5
LULUCF Net Emissions: Grassland	31.3	31.7	31.0	30.3	29.8	29.7	28.4	28.8	28.2	29.7	26.9	29.7	28.4	27.9	26.7	26.9	27.0
LULUCF Net Emissions: Indirect N2O	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.6
LULUCF Net Emissions: Settlements	14.3	14.0	13.6	13.3	12.8	13.2	12.8	13.0	11.7	11.5	12.0	13.6	12.3	13.4	12.6	11.8	11.9
LULUCF Net Emissions: Wetlands	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
Public Sector 'Other'	8.2	5.8	4.9	3.5	3.1	3.0	3.5	2.8	2.9	2.9	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.4	0.5
Public Sector Electricity	28.2	29.9	27.9	27.6	26.1	24.2	22.6	26.4	24.0	20.5	16.7	12.6	13.4	12.5	11.2	8.5	10.7
Public Sector Gas	15.5	13.1	11.4	10.5	9.8	10.7	9.0	10.7	12.7	11.2	11.2	10.1	11.6	12.7	11.1	12.5	15.2
Transport: (A roads)	263.8	264.9	256.1	245.8	239.6	237.8	235.6	233.4	233.7	237.9	243.6	248.8	256.5	255.5	246.7	203.4	216.7
Transport: (Minor roads)	175.9	175.9	182.3	177.9	169.0	164.4	157.5	154.2	152.4	156.7	160.8	167.6	178.4	169.1	164.2	134.6	151.7
Transport: Diesel Railways	7.1	6.9	7.5	7.2	7.1	7.2	6.7	6.9	7.0	7.1	6.7	6.5	6.3	6.0	6.4	5.3	5.6
Transport: other	9.4	9.7	10.0	10.4	10.6	10.9	10.9	10.7	11.2	11.6	12.1	12.2	13.0	13.3	13.9	11.8	12.9
Waste: Landfill	304.6	282.8	90.4	52.7	131.0	71.6	29.8	33.8	19.8	19.4	24.1	36.4	42.5	12.7	9.0	23.5	13.4
Waste: other	14.2	15.9	16.8	16.3	16.7	17.3	18.2	18.5	19.1	21.0	21.2	21.5	22.6	22.4	22.1	21.7	23.0

7 Further information

Contact: Dr Ben Anderson

Report last updated: 2023-07-31 18:13:32.35196

8 Acknowledgements

The code used to generate these graphs draws heavily on Dr Tom Rushby’s Local Authority Emissions explorer.

9 Code

This report was built using Rmarkdown in RStudio. The code is available for inspection and re-use. Changes to the code are logged so you can see how older version of this report may have been updated (and when).

R packages used:

• data.table (Dowle et al. 2015)
• flextable (Gohel 2021)
• ggplot2 (Wickham 2009)
• here (Müller 2017)
• knitr (Xie 2016)
• rmarkdown (Allaire et al. 2018)

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Dowle, M, A Srinivasan, T Short, S Lianoglou with contributions from R Saporta, and E Antonyan. 2015. Data.table: Extension of Data.frame. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=data.table.

Gohel, David. 2021. Flextable: Functions for Tabular Reporting. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=flextable.

Müller, Kirill. 2017. Here: A Simpler Way to Find Your Files. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=here.

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