Agence France-Presse: The economic crisis hitting the European Union caused the bloc’s carbon dioxide emissions to drop by six percent last year, the Oslo-based research institute Point Carbon said. The EU’s 27 member states, which take part in the bloc’s emissions trading scheme, emitted 2.11 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2008, compared to 2.24 billion a year earlier, the institute said in a statement issued late Wednesday. “Today’s numbers tell us two things. They confirm that the …