The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has today released final Greenhouse gas emissions figures for 2010, following input data from a range of State Agencies including Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) and CSO.
Today’s figures update provisional figures released last November and provide Ireland’s status in meeting its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. They also include trends since 1990 and have been submitted to the EU on March 15th as required under EU Decision 280/2004.
The figures show that Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by 0.43 million tonnes (0.7%) in 2010 to 61.31 million tonnes. They also show that Agriculture remains the single largest contributor to overall emissions, at 30.5% of the total, followed by Energy (primarily power generation) and Transport at 21.8% and 18.9% respectively. The remainder is made up by the Industry and Commercial sector at 14.6%, the Residential sector at 12.7% and Waste at 1.4%.
