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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
” width=”1080″>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.
Germany plans to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045
Although Merkel repeated the goals laid out by German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz on Wednesday lowering emissions to 65% of what they were in 1990 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2045 rather than 2050 observers say much more must be done if such goals are to actually be met rather than discussed. Germany must cut climate harming emissions by at least 70% by the year 2030. Otherwise we ll have to take action so drastic that it will gravely injure the fundamental rights of younger generations. There is simply no avoiding quickening the exit from coal power by 2030, ending registration for new internal combustion vehicles by 2025 and swiftly ending mass livestock farming, says Greenpeace climate expert Lisa Göldner.
This week, WHO/Europe launches its 2021 #KeepCool campaign, helping advise communities and decision-makers on ways to stay healthy in the heat and adapt for increased temperatures in the future.