Press release 07/2021 from 15.03.2021 | Last changed: 16.06.2021
Germany's greenhouse gas emissions down 8.7 percent in 2020
… Ministry for the Environment Germany's greenhouse gas emissions down 8.7 percent in 2020 Positive trend of recent years continues / 40.8 percent decrease since 1990 The … crisis, the average price of about 25 euros for one tonne of CO 2 in 2020 remained at the same similarly high level of the previous year. As a result, … recording 146 million tonnes of CO 2 , or 19 million tonnes less than in 2019 (-11.4%) – and thus also below the annual emission level of 150 million tonnes of CO 2 …