That is actually better then I thought (Germany and UK) but I’m pretty sure we’re still on our way to miss our targets by a mile even though I don’t know what they are, exactly. Probably reduction not compared to 1990 but 2010 or 2020?
From 2010 to 2022 Germany’s reduction was only from 10 to 8 t per capita:
Not true. Coal use has actually declined again quickly, while renewables have supplanted the (meagre) former nuclear capacity. Germany also imports a bit more power from its European neighbors to avoid spinning up costly fossil plants. Most of the imports are low-CO2, i.e. Swedish/Austrian/Swiss hydro power, Danish wind power, and French nuclear.
That is actually better then I thought (Germany and UK) but I’m pretty sure we’re still on our way to miss our targets by a mile even though I don’t know what they are, exactly. Probably reduction not compared to 1990 but 2010 or 2020?
From 2010 to 2022 Germany’s reduction was only from 10 to 8 t per capita:
https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/germany
And it seems to have gone up from 2020 to 2022 😢
Russian Natural Gas is gone and they closed their Nuclear Power Stations so back to coal they went!
Not true. Coal use has actually declined again quickly, while renewables have supplanted the (meagre) former nuclear capacity. Germany also imports a bit more power from its European neighbors to avoid spinning up costly fossil plants. Most of the imports are low-CO2, i.e. Swedish/Austrian/Swiss hydro power, Danish wind power, and French nuclear.