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Reuters
Reuters
Environment
Markus Wacket

Exclusive-Germany's greenhouse gas emissions rose in 2021 - environment agency

FILE PHOTO: Steam rises from the cooling towers of the coal power plant of RWE, one of Europe's biggest electricity and gas companies in Niederaussem, Germany, March 3, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo

Germany's greenhouse gas emissions rose by just under 5% last year compared with 2020, the federal environment agency UBA said in its annual report seen by Reuters on Monday, as Europe's largest economy recovered from the coronavirus pandemic.

Although emissions increased last year they were 39% lower compared with 1990 levels, the agency said in the report.

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