site.btaBulgaria Records EU's Second-Highest Decrease in CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel Combustion in 2018
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116 ENVIRONMENT - CARBON DIOXIDE - EMISSIONS
Bulgaria Records EU's Second-Highest Decrease
in CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel
Combustion in 2018
Brussels, May 8 (BTA) - Bulgaria recorded the second-highest decrease in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the EU in 2018 compared with 2017, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported on Wednesday. The fall in Bulgaria was by 8.1 per cent, second only to that in Portugal, by 9.0 per cent. This compares to an average EU decrease of 2.5 per cent.
Bulgaria's CO2 emissions from energy use accounted for 1.3 per cent of the EU's total CO2 emissions in 2018. Latvia, which accounted for 0.2 per cent of the EU's CO2 emissions from energy use, saw the highest increase, by 8.5 per cent.
Eurostat noted that imports and exports of energy products have an impact on CO2 emissions in the country where fossil fuels are burned: for example if coal is imported this leads to an increase in emissions, while if electricity is imported, it has no direct effect on emissions in the importing country, as these would be reported in the exporting country where it is produced. IG/VE
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LN1627NW.116
116 ENVIRONMENT - CARBON DIOXIDE - EMISSIONS
Bulgaria Records EU's Second-Highest Decrease
in CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel
Combustion in 2018
Brussels, May 8 (BTA) - Bulgaria recorded the second-highest decrease in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the EU in 2018 compared with 2017, the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat) reported on Wednesday. The fall in Bulgaria was by 8.1 per cent, second only to that in Portugal, by 9.0 per cent. This compares to an average EU decrease of 2.5 per cent.
Bulgaria's CO2 emissions from energy use accounted for 1.3 per cent of the EU's total CO2 emissions in 2018. Latvia, which accounted for 0.2 per cent of the EU's CO2 emissions from energy use, saw the highest increase, by 8.5 per cent.
Eurostat noted that imports and exports of energy products have an impact on CO2 emissions in the country where fossil fuels are burned: for example if coal is imported this leads to an increase in emissions, while if electricity is imported, it has no direct effect on emissions in the importing country, as these would be reported in the exporting country where it is produced. IG/VE
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