Although the European Union’s electricity demand has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels, CO2 emissions from the European electricity sector were down 12% in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period in 2019 (before the Covid-19 pandemic), says a report published by the think tank Ember on 28 July.
The cause: the continued rise in renewable energy (+11% between the first half of 2019 and the first half of 2021), itself largely due to structural growth in wind and solar...