“Why Germany has a dirty climate secret”
CNN
Germany’s “headline success story” on climate protection has “a dark underside that is usually overlooked in all the fanfare,” Paul Hockenos writes for CNN Online. The country’s greenhouse gas emissions have “stagnated at about 900 million tonnes” of CO₂ per year and remain the highest in Europe “by far”, he says. “Renewables are alone not enough to beat global warming,” he says, adding that Germany “is a delinquent, not the pioneer it could be” in other areas, such as phasing out coal or rethinking transport.
Read the article in English here.
See the CLEW factsheet Germany’s greenhouse gas emissions and climate targets and the CLEW dossier The energy transition and climate change for background.
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