[halicarnassus]

Most CO2 footprints are not meaningful, because they are measuring the total and not per capita, and the CO2 footprint is counted against the producers and not the consumers.

Steel- or car-producing countries, like Germany, will always have higher CO2 footprints than the countries, which consume the steel and cars.

Of course, those producing countries shouldn't burn anything to reap the energy from it.

[Phil_Latio]

It's about Co2 emitted per energy produced. Germany emits on average 5 times more Co2 than France.

[fundatus]

Might be true (didn't check the numbers) but German coal/lignite plants (which are the biggest contributors to the German CO2 footprint) will be phased off gradually over the next 7 years. So that will change drastically.

It would probably have been wiser to keep the nuclear shut-off at 2030, but Fukushima changed that and when the energy crisis hit it was already too late to change course.