18/11/24 (Agence Europe) – On Friday 15 November, Eurostat revealed that the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions totalled around 790 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents in the second quarter of 2024, a decrease of 2.6% compared with the same quarter in 2023 (812 million tonnes of CO2 equivalents). EU GDP, meanwhile, rose by 1% year-on-year. The economic sectors responsible for the greatest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions compared with the second quarter of 2023 were electricity and gas supply (-12.1%) and households (-4.2%). Nineteen EU countries reduced their emissions, with the greatest reductions recorded in the Netherlands (-9.1%), Bulgaria (-6.3%), Austria (-5.9%) and Hungary (-5.9%). To see the Eurostat publication: https://aeur.eu/f/ed2 (PLD)