Over the past year, EU countries have reduced carbon dioxide emissions

EU countries for 2018 have significantly reduced carbon dioxide emissions as a product of the combustion of fossil fuels. Eurostat reported this on Wednesday, May 8.

It is noted that emissions have decreased in 20 countries, but especially Portugal (9%), Bulgaria (8.1%), Ireland (6.8%) and Germany (5.4%) succeeded in this. In turn, the average reduction in carbon dioxide was 2.5% compared with 2017.

At the same time, countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Finland increased emissions.

Earlier, the “Journalist” reported that the EU plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to zero.