EU's greenhouse gas emissions continue to fall as coal ditched
by Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#542TC)
New figures for 2018 show 2.1% drop on previous year in switch to renewables
Greenhouse gas emissions in the EU continued their fall in 2018, the latest year for which comprehensive data is available, according to a new report from Europe's environment watchdog.
Emissions fell by 2.1% compared with 2017, to a level 23% lower than in 1990, the baseline for the bloc's emission cuts under the UN's climate agreements. If the UK is excluded, the decline since 1990 was smaller, standing at 20.7%.
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