Press release 10/2020 from 12.03.2020 | Last changed: 18.03.2020
… by the German Environment Agency (UBA) submitted to the European Commission. In 2018, sulphur (SO2) compounds decreased by nearly 4.2 percent compared to 2017, … 95 percent below 1990. Nitrogen oxide emissions fell by 59 percent between 1990 and 2018, yet air pollution remains too high in many German cities. Direct particulate … time period. Emissions of heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants (POP) in 2018 remained mostly unchanged at very low levels. Ammonia emissions declined only …