Statistical data set

ENV01 - Emissions of air pollutants

Name: ENV01 - Emissions of air pollutants
Creator: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published: 2012-12-18T00:00:00+00:00

Annual update to tables on emissions of important air pollutants in the UK.

From:

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Published:

18 December 2012

Last updated:

12 February 2026

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12 February 2026
Annual update.
13 March 2025
This data was revised on March 13th 2025 to apply the latest, improved domestic combustion methodology across all sources. This correction has impacted domestic combustion emissions across the time series causing a substantial reduction to sulphur dioxide emissions and a minor increase to NMVOC emissions.
10 March 2025
An unscheduled correction will be made to this data on March 13th, due to inconsistencies in applying the latest and improved domestic combustion methodology across all sources. This correction affects only sulphur dioxide and NMVOC emissions from domestic combustion.
13 February 2025
Annual update.
14 February 2024
Annual update.
14 February 2023
The 2021 data is published on the statistical release page
2 March 2022
ODS file replaced in the attachment Tables: Emissions of air pollutants in the UK, 1990 to 2020, by pollutant and by major emissions source (instances of year of coverage updated from 2019 to 2020).
18 February 2022
Opening paragraph removed.
14 February 2022
New annual datasets.
12 February 2021
New dataset for 2021 containing data from 1970 to 2019 inclusive.
14 February 2020
Annual update to emissions of air pollutants statistics.
15 February 2019
Annual update.
15 February 2018
Annual update.
21 December 2016
Annual update to publication.
18 December 2014
Latest statistical dataset 2013.
18 December 2012
First published.

This publication covers UK emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, ammonia and particulate matter.

The estimation methodology is regularly developed to take account of new emission factors and modelling methods. This means the whole time series is revised annually. The figures given in this document and the supporting dataset show the revised estimates.