Highest increase in Bulgaria: greenhouse gas emissions in the EU almost as high as before the pandemic

Almost as many climate-damaging greenhouse gases have recently been emitted in the European Union as before the corona pandemic.

This is the result of data from the statistics agency Eurostat on Tuesday.

According to this, around 881 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases were emitted between July and September 2021 - an increase of 6 percent compared to the same quarter in the first year of the pandemic.

According to Eurostat, before the virus broke out, it was 891 million tons in the same period.

The main reason for the increase is the economic upswing after the economy collapsed in 2020 due to the Corona crisis.

According to the information, a quarter of the emissions in the third quarter of 2021 came from industry (around 23 percent), followed by the electricity supply (21 percent) and households and agriculture (14 percent each).

The most climate-damaging gases increased in Bulgaria (almost 23 percent), Latvia (16 percent) and Greece (13 percent).

With an increase of around 4 percent, Germany was in the bottom third.

Only the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Slovenia managed to further reduce their emissions.