site.btaBulgaria with Largest Increase of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in EU in Q1 of 2025

Bulgaria is the EU Member State with the most significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions in the first quarter of the year, by 17.38% compared to January-March 2024. The average growth in the EU-27 was 3.4%, totalling 900 million tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalents, according to the latest Eurostat estimates published Thursday.

The other Member States that increased their greenhouse gas emissions by over 5% in the first quarter of 2025 are Czechia (10.66%), Cyprus (8.39%), Poland (6.05%), Hungary (5.92%), and Greece (5.89%). Emissions increased in a total of 20 countries.

Seven Member States registered a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, the largest being estimated for Malta (-6.2%), Finland (-4.4%) and Denmark (-4.3%). Three of these seven countries also recorded a decline in their GDP (Estonia, Latvia, and Luxembourg), while the other four (Denmark, Finland, Malta and Sweden) were estimated to have decreased emissions while growing their GDP.

The two economic sectors responsible for the largest year-on-year increases were electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (+13.6%) and households (+5.6%). Three sectors decreased their emissions, namely manufacturing (-0.2%), transportation and storage (-2.9%) and agriculture, forestry and fishing (-1.4%), Eurostat said.