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Condition of Fossil-Fuel CO2 Emissions from Germany |
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The German government has signaled its ambition to wean one of the world largest economies off fossil fuels by pledging to generate enough renewable energy to meet 60 per cent of the country. Energy needs by 2050.
Fossil-fuel emissions of CO2 from unified Germany have declined 22.4% since 1990 to 215 million metric tons of carbon in 2008. The 2008 per capita emission estimate of 2.61 metric tons of carbon is comparable to 1950s levels. Although the largest fraction of emissions (39.8%) is from burning of solid fuels, the use of coal has been in general decline since 1950, at which time 97.3% of the total emissions were from coal burning. Natural gas burning first contributed over 1% in 1968 and is now 22.3% of the total. The year 1991 marked the first year the United Nations published energy statistics for unified Germany. Through 1990 statistics were still published for the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). We have combined the statistics here to generate a continuous time series for unified Germany. Resource: Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center - U.S. Department of Energy (http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/emis/tre_ger.html) 1st paper on the 1st month: fossil fuel CO2 emissions from Germany |
 
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Amazing report
Posted 06-06-2013 18:17
Yeah, thank you...I will do the best!
Posted 27-11-2011 04:47
Thank you Dyah! It's a briliant article. It's very useful to understand the outline of Germany's energy policy. Go for it girl :D
Posted 05-10-2011 14:51