Germany's CO2 Emissions Down In 2007, Thanks In Large Part To Warm Winter - ENN

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A warm winter cut demand for heating oil and gas sending German carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2007 down by 2.7 percent to almost 857 million tons, the federal environment agency UBA said on Monday.

But it warned that the fall in pollution was no reason to lower the guard against climate-changing CO2 pollution.

"The reasons for the lower CO2 emissions were lower demand for oil and gas due to the strong rise in prices for fossil fuels as well as above-average temperatures (which curbed heating demand)," said UBA president Andreas Troge. "These were one-off effects and no reason to reduce climate protection efforts," he added.

Germany is the EU's biggest emitter of six heat-trapping greenhouse gases. CO2 is the most prevalent, accounting for 87 percent of the country's harmful emissions.

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