Carbon dioxide emissions from EU energy use falls by 2.8% in 2022

Carbon dioxide emissions from territorial energy use decreased in 17 EU countries.

The largest decrease was registered in the Netherlands (minus 12.8 per cent), followed by Luxembourg (minus 12 per cent), Belgium (minus 9.7 per cent) and Hungary (minus 8.6 per cent).

On the other end, Bulgaria registered the biggest increase in carbon dioxide emissions (12 per cent), followed by Portugal (9.9 per cent) and Malta (4.1 per cent).

Data show that Germany alone accounts for a quarter of the EU’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion for energy use. Italy and Poland (each 12.4 per cent), and France (10.7 per cent) came next on the EU’s list of the biggest carbon dioxide emitters in 2022.

Carbon dioxide emissions from solid fossil fuels slightly increased at the EU level by 3 percentage points (pp), whereas emissions from oil and petroleum products remained at approximately the same level as in 2021 (1 pp), an official release said.

On the other hand, carbon dioxide emissions from natural gas decreased significantly (minus 13 pp), reflecting, among other things, the efforts invested by EU countries to achieve the voluntary gas demand reduction target introduced in August 2022.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)