“Fluorinated greenhouse gases slightly increased in 2015”
Destatis
Companies in Germany used about 9,347 tonnes of fluorocarbons in 2015, up by around 72 tonnes, or 0.8 percent, on the previous year, Germany’s statistics agency Destatis says in a press release. In 2014, the particularly harmful greenhouse gas accounted for 1.2 percent of Germany’s of total emissions of 11.1 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents, the agency explains. Under an EU regulation that took effect in 2015, fluorocarbon use must be reduced by 80 percent by 2030, compared to the 2009-2012 average.
Read the press release in German here.
Read more on the Energiewende and emissions in the CLEW dossier The energy transition and climate change.
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