7 May 2021
Thanks to a historic ruling from Germany’s highest court last week, the country is stepping up on climate in a way that few saw coming. The court found that Germany’s climate targets were ‘backloading’ effort on climate to later years, essentially concluding that the country’s existing climate targets (a 55% cut by 2030, and climate neutrality by 2050) were badly insufficient. Since then, the government announced a new goal of 65% by 2030, 85-90% by 2040 and climate neutrality by 2045.
The move has created a significant shift in the rankings of countries setting the most ambitious targets on climate. Analysis from Carbon Brief’s Simon Evans, posted on Twitter, shows that Germany’s new target places it approximately second out of a ranking including the UK, the EU, US, Japan, Canada and Australia (which ranks last no matter which base year is used for comparison).
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