Greece Documents Largest Drop in Carbon Emissions in EU for 2020
Agios Dimitrios Power Plant in Greece. Credit: Thpanagos , CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia Commons
Greece is the European Union (EU) member country with the most significant annual drop in carbon emissions according to Eurostat data released on Friday.
Eurostat’s report shows that carbon emissions fell in all EU countries, but Greece had the largest decrease of all, with a decrease of 18.7% in their emissions last year.
EU emissions decrease by 10% overall
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The “European Green Deal” is an EU-wide policy whose aim is to get the entirety of Europe to be climate neutral by 2050. The more immediate goal of the European Green Deal is to decrease emissions by at least 55% by 2030 compared to levels recorded in 1990.