Carbon Emissions: Industry
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what comparative estimate she has made of the level of carbon emissions associated with imported industrial goods and equivalent products manufactured in the UK.
Answered by Mary Creagh
Estimates of imported emissions are published by Defra in the Carbon Footprint statistics here, but comparative estimates associated with imported industrial goods and equivalent products manufactured in the UK have not been made.
However, the Government is developing an embodied emissions reporting framework to help producers measure, report and verify embodied emissions in a consistent way and help buyers to compare products.
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