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Total nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in the European Union (EU) member states in 2021 (in thousand tons)

Characteristic	Emissions in thousands of tons
UE**	660.04
France	97.89
Germany	94.04
Poland	77.85
Italy	65.02
Spain	44.87
Romania	39.5
Netherlands	27.2
Ireland	23.23
Denmark	19.35
Belgium	17.98
Czech Republic	17.69
Hungary	16.94
Bulgaria	16.29
Finland	15.76
Sweden	14.57
Greece	14.48
Austria	11.82
Portugal	11.14
Lithuania	9.8
Slovakia	6.28
Croatia	5.44
Latvia	5.04
Estonia	3.21
Slovenia	2.53
Luxembourg	0.97
Cyprus	0.93
Malta**	0.22

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April 2023

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2021

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Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that persists in the atmosphere for a long time: about 120 years. Its warming potential is 298 times that of CO2 over a century. Agriculture is responsible for the vast majority of French N2O emissions, mainly from the transformation of nitrogen products (fertilizers, manure, slurry, crop residues) on agricultural land.

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This statistic illustrates the total volume of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in the member states of the European Union (27 countries) in 2021. The two highest emitting countries were France and Germany, with 98 and 94 thousand tons emitted, respectively.

Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that persists in the atmosphere for about 120 years. Its warming potential is 298 times that of CO2 over a century. Agriculture is responsible for the vast majority of French N2O emissions, mainly from the transformation of nitrogenous products (fertilizers, manure, slurry, crop residues) on agricultural land.