Industry-related emissions were up 2.5 percent to 75,143 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2-e) in 2019, Stats NZ said today.
This is the highest recorded level since the series began in 2007. Emissions from households dipped slightly, down 0.3 percent to 9,828 kilotonnes CO2-e. As a result, greenhouse gas emissions from industries and households increased 2.1 percent (1,778 kilotonnes), compared with 2018.
The top five contributors to industry and household emissions in 2019 were:
- agriculture, forestry, and fishing, 43 megatonnes CO2-e (51 percent of total emissions)
- manufacturing, 12 megatonnes CO2-e (14 percent)
- households, 9.8 megatonnes CO2-e (12 percent)
- electricity, gas, water, and waste services, 8.1 megatonnes CO2-e (9.6 percent)
- transport, postal, and warehousing, 5.9 megatonnes CO2-e (6.9 percent).
Greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household): Year ended 2019 includes estimates for 114 industries, households, and tourism (a cross-cutting industry). Industry emissions intensity, where greenhouse gas emissions are compared to gross domestic product (GDP), is also available for selected industries, giving a full picture of New Zealand's industry emissions profile.
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Greenhouse gas emissions (industry and household): Year ended 2019.
About the data
Greenhouse gas emissions by industry and household shows the production of greenhouse gases on a standard industrial classification basis and is designed to enable emissions data to be compared to economic statistics, such as GDP or employment.
Emission estimates are based on the latest New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory from the Ministry for the Environment and show industrial and household production-based gross emissions for the period 2007 to 2019.
See Approaches to measuring New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions for more information on how production-based emissions estimates are calculated.
Stats NZ's production-based estimates include emissions from resident New Zealand industries and households, regardless of where the emission occurs, while the Ministry for the Environment's New Zealand's Greenhouse Gas Inventory records emissions on domestic territory only. Stats NZ's estimates are around 2 megatonnes higher than the GHG inventory due to this difference in coverage.
