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Sharpest decrease of the decade in EU’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, before impacts of COVID-19

News Published 17 Sep 2020 Last modified 23 Nov 2020

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Photo: © Mariana Proença on Unsplash

The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) preliminary data on the European Union’s (EU) greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 show close to a 4 % decrease, compared with 2018. The only time EU emissions decreased more since 1990 was during to the economic crisis in 2009. In addition, new EEA data for 2019 show that EU stays on track to end the use of chemicals harming the ozone layer.