Press release No. 038 of 28 January 2021
WIESBADEN - The potential greenhouse effect of the fluorinated greenhouse gases used in Germany in 2019 (FCs, HFCs, blends) fell by almost 14% on 2018 and by even 44% on 2015. This shows that users are increasingly changing over from fluorinated greenhouse gases with a high greenhouse potential to gases with a lower climate-damaging effect, in accordance with the European Union's F-Gas Regulation of 2014. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that roughly 7,313 metric tonnes of greenhouse gases were used in 2019, which was an 11.1% decline on 2018 (8,223 metric tonnes). Measured in CO2 equivalents, the volume of gases used fell from 11.2 million tonnes in 2018 to 9.6 million tonnes in 2019.
