Press release 07/2021 from 15.03.2021 | Last changed: 16.06.2021
Germany's greenhouse gas emissions down 8.7 percent in 2020
… recording 146 million tonnes of CO 2 , or 19 million tonnes less than in 2019 (-11.4%) – and thus also below the annual emission level of 150 million tonnes of CO 2 … has exceeded its annual emission volume as defined in the Climate Protection Act (118 million tonnes of CO 2 equivalents). One reason for this development is lower …