Balance for 2025: Climate Protection in Germany Comes to a Standstill
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17 Articles
Economic crisis, international crises - climate protection seems to slip backwards from the priority. The climate balance shows: Germany still has a lot to do. At the end of March, it gets exciting.
Greenhouse gas emissions have barely decreased in 2025. Environment Minister Schneider sees additional need for action, especially in the transport and building sectors. A new climate protection programme is due to follow at the end of March.
Industrial declines, declines in transport and heating: the German climate balance for 2025 is modest. No good news for the Minister for the Environment: the gap he is supposed to fill is growing.
Climate protection is hardly progressing in Germany: above all transport and buildings are increasing the emissions of climate-damaging gases. The path to climate neutrality remains ambitious. By Dominic Hebestreit.
Despite meeting climate targets, Environment Minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) warns against too slow progress in climate protection. In the transport and building sectors in particular, emissions continue to rise.
The decline in climate-damaging emissions has slowed down, as shown by the Federal Environment Agency's emission data. There is still a high need for action, especially in two sectors.
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