@kkarhan @faket @EUCommission

I often hear that claim dismissively thrown out - but it's true to a lesser extent than people think. The EU doesn't just import; it exports a lot, too.

Here's the relevant figure from the highly reputed Global Carbon Project's latest report (2025).

The real issue with the EU's "success" is that emissions aren't declining fast enough, the fossil industry continues to enjoy considerable support, and the first 20% are the easiest - plans for what's next are shaky.

The US administration is arguing that even as the US, and with it all of Earth, are steaming full ahead at the iceberg [substitute your favourite analogy] - the captain and its crew have no business steering it away from danger.

The stupidity is breathtaking. If the consequences weren't so irreversible, global, existential, it'd be laughable. But it isn't.

Such corruption of gvmt by the fossil industry, such capitalism has only one value: profit. Life, the future, the planet count for nothing.

Half of news reporting in Germany these days seems to be quoting and then explaining at length what it is Trump said. It's an unhealthy obsession.

One should call propaganda what it is, propaganda. Rather than repeating it in the name of reporting.

I have a little problem. You may remember that in the autumn, the German Constitutional Court had given a number of organisations in science-based policy-advising the opportunity to provide a statement on pending climate protection cases.

I had worked with the German Council on the Environment (SRU) to produce a science-based statement on the fair and minimally sufficient German CO2 budget, which we published in October.
https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/04_Stellungnahmen/2024_2028/2025_10_BVerfG.pdf

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