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EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low
Fossil emissions ‘finally back to 1960s levels’, say analysts, but they warn levels are still falling too slowly
The fall in planet-heating pollution is the steepest yearly drop on record behind 2020, when governments shuttered factories and grounded flights to stop the spread of Covid-19, according to analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea). The EU built record levels of solar panels and wind turbines in 2023, according to industry data, and was able to make more electricity from dams and nuclear power plants that had been struck by drought and repair work the year before. Sarah Brown, from the clean energy thinktank Ember, which was not involved in the analysis, said: “This substantial fall in emissions, particularly from the power sector, shows that the EU is accelerating its shift away from risky and expensive fossil fuels.
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