Irish economy sees significant decline in its emissions intensity (via IrishTimesBiz)
There were a number of caveats and cautions tied into the figures. First the pandemic affected the level of industry emissions in 2020 and 2021, particularly for air transport. Hence the 2019 emissions figures were 18 per cent higher than in 2012. On the output side, there was also a much publicised “level-shift” in the Irish national accounts in 2015.So while emissions are rising, relative to economic activity or as a ratio of economic activity they have fallen.
The report noted that the sector with the highest emissions in 2021 was agriculture with 22,098 kilotonnes followed by transportation and storage , electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply and manufacturing . Despite the high value of output, emissions from the information and communications sector was just 148 kilotonnes.
“With increasing activity an associated increase in air emissions could be expected. However, this relationship was not maintained over the 2012-2021 period, with the change in total economic output and value added not tracking the change in the level of air emissions,” CSO statistician Mark Manto said.
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