LONDON (Reuters) - Participants in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) used 81.15 million tonnes of Kyoto Protocol carbon offsets last year, a 1.7 percent fall over 2008, EU Commission data showed on Monday.
Monday's figures also supported preliminary EU data published on April 1, showing the European recession slashed greenhouse gas emissions covered under the scheme by 11.3 percent in 2009 to around 1.87 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
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