{"id":453326,"date":"2026-05-13T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/05\/13\/emissioni-di-gas-serra-nelleconomia-ue-su-dello-09-per-cento-a-fine-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T14:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:36:22","slug":"eu-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rose-0-9-per-cent-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/eu-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rose-0-9-per-cent-in-the-fourth-quarter-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"EU greenhouse gas emissions rose 0.9 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Greenhouse gas emissions from the European Union economy rose in the fourth quarter of 2025<\/strong>. According to Eurostat<\/a>, the European Union\u2019s statistical office, 839 million tonnes of CO\u2082-equivalents (carbon dioxide) were produced in the last three months of the year, 0.9 per cent more than the 832 million tonnes recorded in the previous quarter.<\/strong> Eurostat also specifies that the survey presents seasonally adjusted emissions, as the statistical data on the release of pollutants or greenhouse gases into the atmosphere have been cleansed of seasonal effects.<\/p>\n

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Greenhouse gas emissions by the economy and GDP in the EU. Data from the fourth quarter of 2022 to the fourth quarter of 2025. Source: Eurostat<\/p>\n

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Over the same period, the EU\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.2 per cent compared with the previous three months.<\/strong> The economic sectors that recorded the largest increases in emissions were electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply (+7.2 per cent), transport and storage (+1.3 per cent) and mining and quarrying (+0.9 per cent). Emissions fell, however, for households (-2.0 per cent) and the manufacturing sector (-0.1 per cent).<\/p>\n

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Growth rates of greenhouse gas emissions by the economy and GDP, fourth quarter 2025. Credits: Eurostat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking at individual countries, greenhouse gas emissions rose in nineteen Member States, fell in seven, and remained stable in Germany. The sharpest reductions were seen in Finland (-3.2 per cent), Malta (-2.0 per cent), and the Czech Republic (-0.6 per cent). Furthermore, each of the seven EU countries where reductions in greenhouse gas emissions were estimated (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Spain, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia, and Finland) saw an increase in GDP over the same period. Looking at Italy, emissions rose 0.4 per cent while GDP grew by 0.3 per cent.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Eurostat data, CO\u2082 emissions rose by 7 million tonnes in the final three months of the year. Emissions increased in nineteen Member States, fell in seven, and remained stable in Germany. Italy recorded a rise of 0.4 per cent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7907,"featured_media":255725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,30800,25706],"tags":[25881,27843,26147,31425,33045,26633,33394],"class_list":["post-453326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-energy","category-green-economy-en","tag-co2-in-2","tag-emissions-en","tag-eurostat-en-2","tag-gas-serra","tag-pills","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7907"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453327,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453326\/revisions\/453327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}