Press release 05/2022 from 20.01.2022 | Last changed: 02.02.2022
Final data on climate impact in 2020: emissions down 41 percent over 1990 levels
… Environment Agency nevertheless expects further rise in CO₂ emissions in 2021 Good for the climate: Germany replacing coal-based electricity with more power from … contributed significantly less to the decline in emissions. The mileage of heavy goods vehicles was only slightly lower than in the previous year despite the … in terms of percentage (-53%). So-called “diffuse” greenhouse gas emissions, for example mine gas, decreased over the previous year by 0.4 million tonnes of CO ₂ …