[king_phil]

Was, the conservative party dismantled that pretty quickly.

[wolverine876]

The same party has been in charge for (16?) years; the Greens are popular in Germany.

Edit: Maybe I'm misunderstanding something?

[michaelt]

Germany had a bunch of nuclear plants, which have pretty low carbon emissions.

Then they decided to shut them all down; and that they urgently need a new gas pipeline - Nord Stream 2 - to import natural gas from Russia.

Doesn’t sound very carbon neutral to me.

[lambdasquirrel]

The CDU has a wing that still depends on old coal-burners for their jobs. Shutting down nuclear was their idea of keeping those folks “working” for longer while solar and (especially) wind were spooled up.

To that end, it’s looking better now that the Greens are in the ruling coalition.