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Press release No. 542 of 16 December 2022 Household consumption of housing energy down 0.9% in 2020
Households in Germany consumed less housing energy in the first Covid-19 year of 2020 than in 2019 although people spent more time at home on account of the pandemic. The temperature adjusted consumption of housing energy amounted to a total of 715 …
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Press release No. 510 of 2 December 2022 Energy consumption in transport down by a fifth in 2020
Transport was responsible for a good fifth (21.4%, or 2,562 petajoules) of German energy consumption in 2020. Energy consumption in transport thus dropped by 18.4% compared with 2019, when it had accounted for nearly a fourth (24.1%) of total energy …
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Press release No. 437 of 12 October 2022 CO2 emission intensity of German businesses decreased again in 2020
The total CO2 emission intensity of all economic sectors amounted to 205 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2) per 1,000 euros of gross value added in 2020, which is 8.4% less than a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports …
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Press release No. 590 of 21 December 2021 Before the coronavirus crisis: tourism accounted for 4% of value added and for 2.6% of greenhouse gas emissions
Domestic tourism generated 124 billion euros in the year prior to the coronavirus crisis and thus accounted for 4% of Germany’s value added. In 2019, tourists spent a total of 330 billion euros on tourism-related goods and services within Germany. …
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Press release No. 526 of 18 November 2021 New digital atlas shows ecosystems in Germany
There is a wide variety of ecosystems in Germany whose sizes vary considerably between regions. Their great importance for climate protection and biodiversity is increasingly a focus of public attention. The Ecosystem Atlas (only in German) of the …
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Press release No. 397 of 23 August 2021 Business profits in forestry down 61% in 2019 compared with 2018
In 2019, forestry in Germany produced goods and services to the value of 6.9 billion euros. Based on results of the forest accounts, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that output declined by more than one fifth (-21%) compared with a …
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Press release No. 383 of 13 August 2021 Household energy consumption for housing continued to increase in 2019
In 2019, households in Germany used more energy for housing purposes than a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the temperature adjusted amount of energy used was 722 billion kilowatt hours. This was an increase of …
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Press release No. 323 of 7 July 2021 Raw material footprint, 2018: share of regrowing raw materials amounted to 16%
Germany’s raw material footprint for 2018 was 1,373 million tonnes. The use of regrowing biotic raw materials (e.g. cereals, wood) accounted for 16%, or 224 million tonnes. Based on provisional figures, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) …
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Press release No. 150 of 26 March 2021 Imports of raw materials, semi-finished and finished products down 5.8% in 2020
German imports and exports of raw materials, semi-finished and finished products in the corona year 2020 saw the strongest year-on-year decline since 2009. Imports and exports of materials declined to a similar extent. Based on provisional results of …
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Press release No. 088 of 11 March 2020 Environmental protection expenditure in 2017: highest increase in environmental investments since 2011
In 2017, enterprises, households and general government in Germany spent 70.4 billion euros on environmental protection. According to calculations of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), this was an increase in the environmental protection …
