据天然气新闻2020年11月30日伦敦报道，欧盟委员会（EC）11月30日表示，去年欧盟经济系统温室气体排放量下降了3.7%，下降到了30年来的最低水平。
EC在一份声明中说，温室气体排放量的下降使欧盟的排放量比1990年的水平下降了24%，与此同时，欧盟的GDP增长了1.5%。
欧盟绿色协议执行副总裁弗朗斯•蒂默曼斯表示，“欧盟正在证明，减少排放、促进经济增长是可能的。”
蒂默曼斯在EC的声明中说，“然而，今天的报告再次确认，我们需要在所有经济部门加强努力，以达到2050年前达到气候中立的共同目标。”
2019年，欧盟排放交易系统的排放量降幅最大，比2018年减少了9.1%或相当于1.52亿吨二氧化碳当量。
EC表示，排放量下降主要是由电力部门推动的，电力部门的排放量下降了近15%，主要原因是可再生能源和天然气发电取代了燃煤发电。工业排放量下降了近2%。
EC称，去年欧洲经济区航空公司航班的二氧化碳排放量比2018年增加了1%或70万吨。
EC表示，未纳入欧盟排放交易体系的行业，如交通、建筑、农业、废物和非排放交易体系行业的排放与2018年水平相比没有明显变化。
李峻 编译自 天然气新闻
原文如下：
EU emissions fell 3.7% in 2019 to lowest in 30 years
The EU's economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions fell by 3.7% in 2019 to the lowest in three decades, the European Commission said Nov. 30.
The fall in GHG emissions -- which took the bloc's emissions down to 24% below 1990 levels -- came as the EU's GDP grew by 1.5%, the EC said in a statement.
"The European Union is proving it is possible to reduce emissions and grow your economy," said executive vice-president for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans.
"However, today's report again confirms we need to step up our efforts across all sectors of the economy to reach our common goal of climate neutrality by 2050," he said in the EC's statement.
Emissions covered by the EU Emissions Trading System saw the greatest reduction in 2019, falling by 9.1% or about 152 million mt of CO2 equivalent from 2018 levels.
The drop was driven mainly by the power sector where emissions fell by almost 15%, primarily due to renewable and natural-gas fired electricity displacing coal-fired power, the EC said. Emissions from industry fell by close to 2%, it said.
CO2 emissions from aviation from flights within the European Economic Area increased by 1% or 700,000 mt in 2019 compared with 2018 levels, it said.
Emissions from sectors that are not covered by the EU ETS, such as transport, buildings, agriculture, waste and non-ETS industries, saw no significant change compared with 2018 levels, the EC said.