EU economy greenhouse gas emissions: -24% since 2008. Between 2008 and 2020, the largest relative decrease of GHG emissions was recorded in the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (-41%), followed by mining and quarrying (-38%) and manufacturing (-27%).

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  1. In 2020, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by economic activities of EU resident units stood at 3.5 billion tonnes of CO2 equivalents.

    Compared with 2019, there was a 9% decrease, and compared with 2008, there was a 24% decrease.
    Annual air emissions accounts offer detailed data by 64 emitting production activities (classified by NACE Rev. 2) as well as households, as defined and classified within national accounts.

    The activity with the highest GHG emissions in 2020 was the manufacturing industry (740 million tonnes of CO2-eq; 21% of total greenhouse gases emitted), followed by the supply of electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning (719 million tonnes of CO2-eq; also 21%) and total activities by households (693 million tonnes of CO2-eq; 20%).

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