2024-01-05 12:13:13
The thermal power plant of Niederaussem, in Rhineland-du-North-Westphalia, in Germany. FEDERICO GAMBARINI / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP
ANALYSE – Its emissions, which fell by almost 10% in 2023, could rise again with the economic recovery.
This may be surprising in a country which had fallen back on coal after the invasion of Ukraine. However, CO2 emissions from Germany, Europe’s leading industrial nation, have reached their lowest level in almost seventy years. In 2023, greenhouse gas emissions fell to 673 million tonnes, “the lowest level since the 1950s” and significantly down from 746 million tonnes in 2022, the think tank Agora calculated Energiewende. Its figures differ a little from those of the Global Carbon Project organization, but they attest to the same evolution.
Berlin can thus boast of a drop of almost 10% in CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions in the country between 2022 and 2023. For comparison, in France, emissions fell by 4.6%. over the first nine months of 2023, according to the organization in charge of their inventory, Citepa, but they represent less than half of those in Germany
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