Emissions: "Incredibly much momentum": Electrification brings pace to climate protection
The expansion of green energy is progressing worldwide, even in countries where researchers wouldn't necessarily have expected it. Germany is slipping down the new climate protection rankings.
A new climate protection ranking by Germanwatch and the New Climate Institute shows that despite political pressure, the spread of renewable energies, storage technologies, and electric cars is driving the fight against global warming. The ranking of 64 countries and the EU, which account for over 90% of global greenhouse gas emissions, reveals that while progress is slow in some countries, technological and economic momentum is building.
Germany has fallen to 25th place in the ranking, with critics arguing that the government's climate policies have been moving backwards since taking office in May 2025. The top-ranked countries are Denmark, Lithuania, and Luxembourg, while the G20 countries, including China and the US, are showing weak climate protection efforts.
Written by urgent.news from Handelsblatt's report — not a translation of it. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.
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