Economy, carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in the European Union last year, 2.5 percent compared to a year earlier. Reports that the European statistics agency Eurostat on the basis of preliminary figures on greenhouse gas. In Belgium, the CO2-emissions by 0.3 percent.
The statisticians do not indicate where the decline comes through. However, they point to the effect that import and export on the figures. Thus, imported energy is not counted in the total CO2 emissions of the importing country, but that is not true for the import of fuels, such as coal or gas.
The emission of carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming. The EU has committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to 40 percent below the level of the reference year 1990. The emission of several factors, including the weather, economic growth, the size of the population, transport and industrial activity.
The Belgian CO2 emissions accounted for 2.4 percent of the total in Europe. With the slight decline of 0.3 percent is Belgium in the lower tabelhelft and we do worse than some of our neighbouring countries. In the Netherlands, it decreased CO2 emissions by 4.6 per cent, in France, with 3.5 percent and in Germany by 5.4 percent. Portugal is the European frontrunner with a reduction of 9 per cent, for Bulgaria and Ireland.
Eight states saw their emissions just increase. ‘Champion’ was Latvia that 8.5 percent more CO2 exhausted.
