German greenhouse gas emissions virtually unchanged in 2025

Greenhouse gas emissions in Germany were almost unchanged in 2025 with a 0.1 percent decrease compared over the previous year, the environment ministry said Saturday, bemoaning the progress as "too slow". Emissions were equivalent to 649 million tonnes of CO2, worse than those forecast by the expert group Agora Energiewende which anticipated a 1.5 percent drop year-on-year.

Despite this, the ministry said it was still possible to achieve the 2030 climate target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 65 percent compared with 1990. But emissions would have to "fall by an average of 42 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year" from 2026 onward, more than 40 times the reduction recorded last year.