Air Emissions Accounts
Air emissions accounts:greenhouse gas emissions kept on reducing
- 2011
18 October 2013
Summary
It is estimated that in 2011 there has been a decrease of 1.2% in greenhouse gas emissions (after a decrease of 5.6% in 2010), attaining a new minimum for the series started in 1995. A smaller reduction of these emissions in 2011 is partly explained by the bellow average rainfall level, which implied a lower production of electricity by hydropower plants, with the consequent use of more polluting energy sources. This indicator registered, between 2006 and 2010, successive reductions, showing a dissociation between the evolution of economic activity, which increased in some of those years. In 2011, the greenhouse gas emissions decreased in line with Gross Value Added (GVA).
It is estimated that in 2011 there has been a decrease of 1.2% in greenhouse gas emissions (after a decrease of 5.6% in 2010), attaining a new minimum for the series started in 1995. A smaller reduction of these emissions in 2011 is partly explained by the bellow average rainfall level, which implied a lower production of electricity by hydropower plants, with the consequent use of more polluting energy sources. This indicator registered, between 2006 and 2010, successive reductions, showing a dissociation between the evolution of economic activity, which increased in some of those years. In 2011, the greenhouse gas emissions decreased in line with Gross Value Added (GVA).
