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This is a line chart of UK CO2 emissions from different sectors of the economy from 1990 to 2018. It has a y- axis labelled CO2 emissions in millions of tonnes with a scale which runs from minus 20 to plus 220. The x- axis is marked in years. It shows emissions from seven sectors: electricity, shown in dark blue; transport, shown in orange, business and industrial combustion, shown in red; domestic combustion, shown in light blue, other energy industries, shown in grey; public, agriculture and waste, shown in pale purple and land use, land use change and forestry, LULUCF*, shown in green. Emissions from the electricity sector started at about 200 million tonnes in 1990 and fell unevenly to 150 million tonnes in 1999 before rising to a peak of 182 million tonnes in 2006. They then fell unevenly to about 150 million tonnes in 2013 before falling more steeply to only 66 million tonnes in 2018. Emissions from transport are almost constant across the chart. They started at 125 million tonnes in 1990, rose to 135 million tonnes in 2007 and fell to just over 120 million tonnes in 2010, remaining at about that level until 2018. Emissions from business and industrial combustion have a slow declining trend across the chart. They started at 130 million tonnes in 1990, falling to 114 million tonnes in 2005 and to 75 million tonnes in 2018. Emissions from domestic combustion are almost constant across the chart. They started at about 80 million tonnes in 1990, and remained at about that level until 2013, after which they fell to 66 million tonnes in 2018. Emissions from other energy industries change little across the chart. They started at 40 million tonnes in 1990, rose slightly to 50 million tonnes in 1996 and then declined back to 40 million tonnes in 2010 and to just over 30 million tonnes in 2018. Emissions from public, agriculture and waste again change little across the chart. They started at about 20 million tonnes in 1990 and fell to 15 million tonnes in 2018. Emissions from land use, land use change and forestry are shown as negative, meaning a net uptake of CO2. They started at about minus 2 in 1990, becoming minus 10 in 2005 and remaining at that level up to 2018.