I don't find the argument "richer countries can emit more CO2" to be helpful. The richer the country the more money is available to act responsible.
Even in your GDP adjusted data France is 37% lower than Germany (0.14/0.09). In a global comparison both countries are doing fine, but not good enough: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/ .
France sadly stopped improving and stopped building at the pace they did before and had to fall back on gas.
The Left in France has been fighting nuclear for 30 years and made progress in that when nuclear was really down after 2011.
Germany on the other hand could have easily overtaken France had they mass produced nuclear. Germany as an engineering nation would have been good at this. And unlike with solar, they would be huge in the global world market as well.
ZeroGravitas|3 years ago
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PP.GD?locat...
Once you adjust for GDP they're both doing well and Germany has caught up with France (added UK and US for context).
srrr|3 years ago
Even in your GDP adjusted data France is 37% lower than Germany (0.14/0.09). In a global comparison both countries are doing fine, but not good enough: https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/ .
panick21_|3 years ago
The Left in France has been fighting nuclear for 30 years and made progress in that when nuclear was really down after 2011.
Germany on the other hand could have easily overtaken France had they mass produced nuclear. Germany as an engineering nation would have been good at this. And unlike with solar, they would be huge in the global world market as well.