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This is a horizontal bar chart. It has a scale at the top in millions of tonnes. It shows UK domestic emissions broken down by mode. The percentage contribution of each mode is marked as a percentage. Contributions from road transport are shown in dark purple. Those for other categories are shown in light purple. The contributions for domestic transport are as follows: cars and taxis: 68 million tonnes or 55%; heavy goods vehicles: 19 million tonnes or 16%; light vans: 19 million tonnes or 16%; buses and coaches: 3.1 million tonnes or 3%; motorcycles and mopeds: 0.5 million tonnes, less than 1%; other road transport emissions: 0.5 million tonnes, less than 1%; rail transport: 1.7 million tonnes or 1%; domestic aviation: 1.4 million tonnes or 1%; domestic shipping: 6.1 million tonnes or 5%; other non road transport: 2.3 million tonnes or 2%. In addition, at the bottom there are two bars, shown in black for international transport that this not part of UK domestic transport statistics. International aviation contributes 37 million tonnes and international shipping 7.5 million tonnes.