Press release 17/2019 from 04.06.2019 | Last changed: 11.06.2019
Emissions trading 2018: German installations cut emissions by 3.5 per cent
… thus a continuing trend. Emissions in the energy-intensive industries in the period 2013-2017 varied between 123 and 126 million tonnes of CO2eq and remained at a … tonnes of CO2eq in 2018. The decline in total ETS emissions in Germany since 2013 is almost entirely traceable to the downward trend in emissions from power … than in Germany alone (around 18 percent). The decline in emissions in the period 2013 to 2018 has slowed down Europe-wide: in 2018 emissions were around 12 percent …