Aaaaand Another Climate Faceplant: Germany Manages To Lower GHG Output By 0.1% In 2025 [View all]

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany have again missed targets set by the Climate Protection Act and barely fell at all in 2025. Emissions decreased by just 0.1% last year compared to the previous year, according to data from the German Environment Agency.

The country’s emissions in 2025 were equivalent to 649m tonnes of CO2, worse than those forecast by the expert group Agora Energiewende, which anticipated a 1.5% drop year-on-year. In 2024, a more significant drop of 3.4% was recorded.

Germany’s environment minister, Carsten Schneider, criticised the lack of improvement at a conference in Berlin on Saturday. The Social Democrat said that despite an increasing acceptance of electric cars and heat pumps, overall progress was “too slow” and urged citizens to accelerate their adoption of renewable power sources for both environmental and security reasons.

“What benefits the climate also increases our security and economic strength,” he said. “Every additional kilowatt-hour of renewable energy makes our country less dependent on oil and gas and our energy supply more secure.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/germany-misses-climate-targets-as-emissions-barely-fall-in-2025