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Sustainable consumption and production - indicators

This pie chart, and the table below give a summary of assessments for the sustainable consumption and production indicators supporting the UK Government Sustainable Development Strategy.

Clicking on the indicator name leads to a page with a chart/charts, assessments of progress and commentary. A smaller thumbnail chart links to a larger version in those cases where longer term trend information is available.

Indicator

Change since:

1990

2003

1. Greenhouse gas emissions:*

Greenhouse gas emissions

Green Green

CO2 emissions

Green green

2. Carbon dioxide emissions by end user:

Industry

Green Amber

Domestic

Green green

Transport

Red amber

3. Aviation and shipping emissions:

Aviation bunkers

Red Red

Shipping bunkers

cross cross

6. Household energy use:

Green green

7. Road transport:

CO2 emissions

Red Amber

NOx, PM10 emissions

Green Green

8. Private cars:

Red Amber

9. Road freight:

Red Amber

10. Manufacturing sector:

CO2, NOxemissions

tick tick

SO2 PM10, emissions

tick equal

11. Service sector:

CO2,emissions

cross equal

NOxemissions

tick tick

12. Public sector:

CO2,emissions

tick equal

NOxemissions

tick tick

13. Resource use:*

Green Amber

15. Water resource
use:

Abstractions

Green Green

Leakage losses

Green since 1992 Amber

16. Domestic water consumption:

Amber since 1995 Amber

18. Waste:*

No data Green

19: Household waste per person:

Waste arisings

Red Red

Recycled or composted

Green Green

22. Agriculture sector:

Fertiliser use, NH3, emissions

tick tick

CH4 emissions

tick equal

Farmland bird population

Red cross

25. Land recycling

Green Green

27. Fish stocks

Green Green

29. Emissions of air pollutants

CO2,, NH3, SO2 emissions

tick tick

PM10,

tick equal

30. River quality

Biological

Green amber

Chemical

Green Green

32. Economic output (contextual)

Green Green

33. Productivity (contextual)

Green Green

34. Investment (contextual)

Total investment

Green Green

Social investment

No data No data

35. Demography (contextual)

Contextual Contextual

36. Households and dwellings (contextual)

Contextual Contextual

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Updated: 30 July 2009