Within the second quarter of 2024, the EU economic system greenhouse fuel emissions have been estimated at 790 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.6% lower in contrast with the identical quarter of 2023 (812 million tonnes of CO2-eq). The EU’s gross home product (GDP) registered a 1.0% improve within the second quarter of 2024, in contrast with the identical quarter of 2023.
This info comes from information on quarterly estimates for greenhouse fuel emissions by financial exercise revealed by Eurostat at this time. Quarterly estimates of greenhouse fuel emissions complement quarterly socio-economic information, equivalent to GDP or employment.
This text presents a handful of findings from the extra detailed Statistics Defined article on quarterly greenhouse fuel emissions.
Supply datasets: env_ac_aigg_q and namq_10_gdp
In contrast with the second quarter of 2023, within the second quarter of 2024, the financial sectors liable for the most important reductions have been electrical energy and fuel provide (-12.1%) and households (-4.2%).
Greenhouse fuel emissions down in 19 EU international locations
Within the second quarter of 2024, greenhouse fuel emissions have been estimated to have decreased in 19 EU international locations in comparison with the identical quarter of 2023.
The most important reductions in greenhouse gases have been estimated for the Netherlands (-9.1%), Bulgaria (-6.3%), Austria and Hungary (every -5.9%).
Out of the 19 EU international locations that have been estimated to have decreased their emissions, 5 recorded a decline of their GDP (Eire, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Austria). The opposite 14 EU international locations (Poland, Denmark, Croatia, Spain, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Portugal, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Czechia, Netherlands, France and Germany) have been estimated to have decreased emissions whereas rising their GDP.
Supply datasets: env_ac_aigg_q and namq_10_gdp
For extra info
- Statistics Defined article on quarterly greenhouse fuel emissions
- Thematic part on local weather change
- Database on local weather change
Methodological notes
- Metadata on quarterly greenhouse fuel emissions
- The information introduced listed below are estimates by Eurostat, apart from the Netherlands, Sweden and Spain, which supplied their very own estimates. Eurostat’s methodology differs from UN guidelines, significantly in attributing worldwide transport emissions to particular person international locations. Eurostat estimates embody these emissions in every nation’s whole, following the worldwide System of Environmental-Financial Accounting (SEEA) customary.
- As events to the UNFCCC and the Paris Settlement, the EU and the EU international locations report yearly on their greenhouse fuel emissions to the UN. The so-called ‘Kyoto basket’ of greenhouse gases contains carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O) and fluorinated gases. They’re expressed in a typical unit, CO2-equivalents. EU international locations are required to observe their emissions of those gases for all supply sectors based mostly on internationally agreed obligations and guidelines. The EU greenhouse fuel stock managed by the European Surroundings Company covers emissions from 1990 to 2 years earlier than the present 12 months and is submitted to the UN every spring after high quality checks. Based on the European Local weather Regulation, the EU’s local weather goal is to attain a -55% web discount by 2030 and local weather neutrality by 2050.