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Latvia's greenhouse gas emissions rose in first quarter

Photo: LETA, Ivars Soikāns
August 17, 2023, 10:48
Environment

In the first quarter of 2023, greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union economy fell by nearly three percent compared to the same quarter of 2022, totalling 941 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq). In Latvia though, the trend was in the opposite direction with emissions up by the seond-largest percentage in the EU.

This information comes from data on quarterly estimates for greenhouse gas emissions by economic activity published by Eurostat august 16. 

Emissions in the first quarter of 2023 decreased in almost all EU countries when compared with the first quarter of 2022, except for Ireland (+9.1%), Latvia (+7.5%), Slovakia (+1.9%), Denmark (+1.7%) Sweden (+1.6%) and Finland (0.3%), where they increased.

The largest reductions in greenhouse gases were registered in Bulgaria (-15.2%), Estonia (-14.7%) and Slovenia (-9.6%). 

Greenhouse gas emissions and GDP, Q1 2023
Greenhouse gas emissions and GDP, Q1 2023
Photo: Eurostat

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