Our energy use

How Defra is changing its energy use to bring about sustainable improvements in efficiency and performance.

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Department
for Environment
Food & Rural Affairs

Greening government

All government departments are committed to improving their sustainability performance in line with the Greening Government Commitments.

Defra’s performance against these commitments will be published here quarterly:

• Greening Government Commitments 2016 to 2020
• Defra’s Greening Government Commitments performance (updated July 2023) (PDF, 158 KB, 6 pages)
• greenhouse gas emissions from the Defra estate