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None of the above takes account of the greenhouse gases the UK is responsible for elsewhere in the world. British companies play a huge role in international trade and many of the goods they sell and that UK consumers buy are manufactured overseas. Yet the energy used to produce them does not show up on the UK greenhouse gas inventory.

Take one of the UK’s most successful companies, British Petroleum (BP). Its direct activities, such as exploration, drilling and refining, combined with the sale of its products, are estimated to have resulted in emissions of nearly 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2004. That’s more than double the carbon dioxide produced by the UK. According to one financial company, emissions from all the oil, gas and coal sold by FTSE 100 companies is likely to be close to fifteen per cent of the global total from all fossil fuels.