The European Union’s greenhouse gas output plummeted 8.3 percent in 2023, a flagship report released Thursday revealed.
It’s an annual drop not seen in decades, the EU said, driven by the accelerating rollout of renewable energy sources across the continent.
“In absolute terms, the fall in GHG emissions in 2023 was the largest annual cut in several decades, excluding the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020,” said the paper, dubbed the 2024 Climate Action Progress Report.
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The new findings mean the EU’s emissions have dropped 37 percent from 1990s levels.
