Eurostat: EU last year reduced its CO2 emissions by 5 percent. – Onet.pl

As the European Commission, emitting CO2 is the main contributor to global warming and accounts for about 80 per cent. all greenhouse gas emissions in the EU.

According to estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU which, the biggest reduction in emissions 2014. of 14 percent. Slovakia can enjoy. Second in order of Denmark is the result reaching almost 11 percent.

Poland recorded a reduction by 5.3 percent ., which is 0.3 percentage point more than compared to the average for the EU.

Emissions in 2014 . increased on a year to year among others in Bulgaria (by 7.1 per cent.), Cyprus (3.5 percent.) and Lithuania (2.2 percent.).

The amount of greenhouse gases emitted is dependent on factors such as economic growth, population size and activity of industry and transport sector.