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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8975

23 June 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/climate change
More coal use pushes up EU greenhouse gas emissions in 2003

Brussels, 22/06/2005 (Agence Europe) - The findings of the latest national estimates collated by the European Environment Agency (EEA), demonstrate that emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases rose by 1.5% in the EU-25 in 2003 compared with 2002. EU-15 emissions went up by 1.3, which equates to an extra 53 million tonnes. Almost half of this rise - 24 million tonnes - was due to a 2.1% increase in emissions from energy industries, which in turn was caused mainly by...

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