Germany now EU's worst polluter as CO2 emissions rise

Germany is the European Union's worst polluter, with its production of CO2 gasses from fossil fuel rising by two per cent in 2013 to 760 million tonnes, official data showed today.
The EU's statistics agency Eurostat found that while emissions were cut across the 28-member bloc by an average of 2.5 per cent in 2013, they actually went up in six countries, including Germany.
Denmark registered a 6.8 per cent increase in CO2 emissions, in Estonia it was up by 4.4 per cent, followed by Portugal (+3.6 per cent), France (+0.6 per cent) and Poland (+0.3 per cent).
The strongest cuts in CO2, which account for 80 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions causing global warming, came from Cyprus, where emissions went down by 14.7 per cent, followed by Romania (-14.6 per cent) and Spain (-12.6 per cent).

The EU produced a total 3.35 billion tonnes of CO2 in 2013, down from the total of 3.43 billion tonnes in 2012.
Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands account for 77 per cent of the EU's CO2 emissions.