Government carbon dioxide emissions between May 2010 and May 2011 amounted to 646,231 tonnes, which is 13.8% less than the previous year. This is what that looks like:
The actual volume of carbon dioxide gas emitted by the UK Government in 2010/11 (red volume). The saving on 2009/10 - the gas that didn't enter the atmosphere -?is shown as the dashed volume. The target is shown as a red band.
Carbon Visuals has produced a set of high-resolution Google Earth images to illustrate the data. Concrete visualisations like these give some viewers?a better feel for the scale of the emissions and savings?than a table alone can. They are available from Flickr with a Creative Commons Attribution License (credit: Carbon Visuals). Click the images to see higher resolution versions in Flickr. See the Government press release here: www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/news/pn11_059/pn11_059.aspx.
To view these volumes in Google Earth, download the .kmz files:
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The view from Pall Mall, looking down Waterloo Place.
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The view from Buckingham Palace
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The view from inside the volume. The area of the base is 66 hectares (163 acres) and the height of the red volume is 525 metres.
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Actual volumes of emissions (and targets and savings) from Government Departments. The columns are 175 metres wide. The area of the base of each column is 3 hectares (7.6 acres). The heights of the red volumes range from 2,846 metres (Dept. of Work and Pensions) to 17 metres (Dept. of Energy and Climate Change).
Left to right:?Department of Work and Pensions; Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Defence; Home Office; Department for Transport; Department for Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Department of Health; Department for Education; Cabinet Office; UK Statistics Authority; Her Majesty's Treasury; Department for International Development; Department for Culture Media and Sport; Department of Energy and Climate Change
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View from Tottenham Court Road
Left to right: Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Defence; Home Office; Department for Transport; Department for Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Department of Health; Department for Education; Cabinet Office; UK Statistics Authority
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View from Westminster Square
Left to right:?Department for Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department
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Left to right:?Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Left to right: Ministry of Defence; Home Office; Department for Transport; Department for Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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Left to right:?Left to right: Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Department of Health; Department for Education; Cabinet Office; UK Statistics Authority
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office did well to reduce its emissions by over 18% but it didn't meet its target reduction of nearly 29%
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Left to right: Cabinet Office; UK Statistics Authority; Her Majesty's Treasury; Department for International Development; Department for Culture Media and Sport
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Left to right: Her Majesty's Treasury; Department for International Development; Department for Culture Media and Sport; Department of Energy and Climate Change
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Left to right: Department of Work and Pensions; Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Defence; Home Office; Department for Transport; Department for Communities and Local Government; Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Law Officers' Department; Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Department of Health; Department for Education; Cabinet Office; UK Statistics Authority; Her Majesty's Treasury; Department for International Development; Department for Culture Media and Sport; Department of Energy and Climate Change
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Aerial view looking South East from above Westminster
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Source: http://carbonquilt.posterous.com/government-departments-exceed-their-10-co2-re
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