Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 11681

Shipping: Exhaust Emissions

Tabled: 29 October 2024
Answered: 5 November 2024

Question

Siân Berry

Green PartyBrighton Pavilion

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the impact of emissions of nitrogen dioxide from ships at English ports on the annual mean concentration limits set out in the Air Quality St

Answer

Emma Hardy
Domestic shipping contributed 11% to total UK nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions in 2022. The Air Quality Plan for NO2 addresses the primary cause of exceedances of the concentration limits set by the Air Quality Standards Regulations 2010 (AQSR): emissions...

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