Press release 15/2022 from 15.03.2022 | Last changed: 17.03.2022
Greenhouse gas emissions rose by 4.5 percent in 2021
… 247 million tonnes CO₂ equivalents were still some 11 million tonnes less than in 2019. The Federal Climate Change Act prescribes no annual emission budget in 2021 … transport, which has risen again on the motorways to a level slightly above that of 2019. Passenger vehicle traffic, in contrast, continues to be lower than in the pre-pandemic period (2019), which is reflected in fuel sales figures and data from traffic count sites on …