{"id":288589,"date":"2026-02-17T17:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288589\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:53:25","slug":"eu-economy-greenhouse-gas-emissions-1-1-in-q3-2025-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288589\/","title":{"rendered":"EU economy greenhouse gas emissions: +1.1% in Q3 2025 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a> economy\u2019s seasonally adjusted <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Greenhouse_gas_(GHG)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenhouse gas emissions<\/a> in the third quarter of 2025 were estimated at 828 million tonnes of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Carbon_dioxide_equivalent\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CO2-equivalents<\/a> (CO2-eq), a 1.1% increase compared with the second quarter of 2025 (819 million tonnes of CO2-eq). At the same time, the EU\u2019s <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Gross_domestic_product_(GDP)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gross domestic product<\/a> (GDP) increased by 0.4% in the third quarter of 2025, compared with the previous quarter of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/env_ac_aigg_q\/default\/table?lang=en&amp;category=env.env_air.env_air_aa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data on seasonally adjusted quarterly estimates of greenhouse gas emissions by economic activity<\/a> published by Eurostat today. Quarterly estimates of greenhouse gas emissions complement quarterly socio-economic data, such as GDP or employment. This article presents the key findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Quarterly_greenhouse_gas_emissions_in_the_EU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained article on quarterly greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The economic sectors with the largest increases in greenhouse gas emissions were households (+3.6%) and manufacturing (+1.4%). Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (-0.8%) was the only sector that recorded a decrease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23011745\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-gdp.jpg\/211209ff-b1b7-767d-9056-fc3bd8818355?t=1770801647544\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greenhouse gas emissions by the economy and GDP in the EU, Q3 2022 - Q3 2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-gdp.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/f3b04055-e521-4db8-a3d0-6f9197cf477f?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">env_ac_aigg_q<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/e6669993-c5a7-48ea-8549-1fa91699f5a6?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-11-05T15:42:30Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">namq_10_gdp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Compared with the third quarter of 2024, seasonally adjusted emissions remained unchanged, while the EU\u2019s seasonally and calendar adjusted GDP increased by 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p>Greenhouse gas emissions decreased in 10 EU countries\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In the third quarter of 2025, seasonally-adjusted greenhouse gas emissions increased in 17 EU countries and decreased in 10 countries compared with the second quarter of 2025.<br \/>The largest reductions in greenhouse gases were estimated for Estonia (-17.4%), Slovenia (-5.7%) and Cyprus (-5.2%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Out of the 10 EU countries that registered decreases in greenhouse gas emissions, only Lithuania recorded also a decline in GDP. The other 9 EU countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania and Slovenia)\u00a0have decreased emissions while growing or maintaining their GDP levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/4187653\/23011745\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-country.jpg\/6328e5aa-8f6a-95e7-ccd5-d67594b48240?t=1770801679558\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Growth rates of greenhouse gas emissions by the economy and GDP, Q3 2025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-country.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source datasets: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/e6669993-c5a7-48ea-8549-1fa91699f5a6?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2025-11-05T15:42:30Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">env_ac_aigg_q<\/a> and <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/namq_10_gdp\/default\/table?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">namq_10_gdp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EU economy\u2019s seasonally adjusted greenhouse gas emissions in the third quarter of 2025 were estimated at 828&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[157288,6172,125791,273,77077,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-288589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-cc","9":"tag-data-driven-news","10":"tag-env","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-environment-and-energy","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}