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According to the latest data, waste processing accounts for 2.75% of all haz-ardous waste, agriculture - 8.72%, industrial pollution - 7.82%.
The remaining 80.70% is energy, of which a third is emissions from vehicles, including cars, aircrafts, ships, diesel locomotives. Obviously, Europe’s forests absorb only harmful substances related to garbage and agricultural activities.
The main measure to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases produced is con-sidered the reduction of coal-fired power generation and the development of renewable sources of electricity.
Europe already has new technologies that are waiting to be introduced. For ex-ample, in Sweden, hydrogen has recently been used instead of coal in steel production. Hydrogen is the key word in this respect. Hydrogen energy should, together with renewable sources, create a new energy tandem that will allow Europe to reduce its dependence on energy imports.
But not only energy is subject to improvement. The construction sector must be transformed from a carbon source to a carbon absorber, for example, by in-creasingly using organic building materials such as wood.
Of course, with a gradual transition to renewable sources, a lot of technical dif-ficulties will arise, but experts are sure that this is exactly the case when the whole world will benefit from complex challenges.
The main advantage for the big cities of the continent after resolving the prob-lem will be the fact that the air will become almost twice as clean. And this will significantly reduce the number of people suffering from respiratory diseases.
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