{"id":462273,"date":"2026-03-07T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462273\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:58:22","slug":"transport-still-contributing-most-to-greenhouse-gas-in-guernsey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462273\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport still contributing most to greenhouse gas in Guernsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An increase in greenhouse gases globally is causing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/bitesize\/articles\/zq2m2v4#zdmxm39\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temperatures to rise<\/a>, by  trapping thermal energy which heats up the atmosphere, like heat trapped in a greenhouse. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Burning fuel for energy, including heating, electricity, transport and industry accounts for 78% of harmful emissions in Guernsey and landfilled waste is the next largest contributor, the States said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The majority of emissions were from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-guernsey-52904983\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">carbon dioxide<\/a>, released by burning fossil fuels for energy but also include methane gas from decomposing rubbish on landfill and from farming and nitrous from burning fuel, waste disposal and agriculture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn05yddglrro\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Transport<\/a> emissions have dropped by 34% between 1990 and 2024, with a 5% drop between 2023 and 2024, the report said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The data team estimated that Guernsey&#8217;s total greenhouse gas emissions for 2025 would be 288 kilotons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An increase in greenhouse gases globally is causing temperatures to rise, by trapping thermal energy which heats up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-462273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}