What European countries have the highest and lowest rates of ...

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What European countries have the highest and lowest rates of natural population increase?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Explain why and how Europe has been so successful in reducing its CO2 emissions over the last 20 years.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Answer to Question 1

The highest rates of natural population increase are found in Ireland and Iceland; the lowest are found in Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Portugal, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Answer to Question 2

Under this scheme, specific yearly emission caps are set for the European Union's largest GHG emitters; if emitters exceed those limits, they must compensate either by purchasing carbon equivalences from an emitter below its own cap or by buying credits from the EU carbon market; the goal is to punish those who pollute excessively and to reward those that stay under their carbon quota.