As economies recovered from the coronavirus crisis, greenhouse gas emissions increased across the European Union in the third quarter of 2021, according to the report released by Eurostat on Tuesday.
Eurostat’s report showed that emissions generated by business activiies totaled 881 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents in the third quarter of 2021, up 6% from the same period of 2020. The rebound follows a sharp decline in activity in the same quarter of 2020 due to the COVID-19 crisis.
