Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions rank second-highest in the EU despite fall

Emissions in Ireland fell by 3.1% from an average of 56.7 million tonnes in 1990-1994 to 55 million tonnes in 2023. File photo: David Creedon

Ireland had the second-highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the EU in 2022, as it grapples with ever warmer, wetter weather, the Central Statistics Office has said.

Publishing its set of environmental indictors for Ireland in 2024 across 10 key themes, and comparing us to countries in Europe and further afield, the CSO statistics present a mixed bag in terms of progress on important metrics.