Some non-German nuclear power fans keep claiming that German emissions are not falling fast enough because we phase out nuclear power plants. Here's two charts showing why this claim is ill-informed, at best. 1/4
Germany follows a strategy to phase out nuclear in favor of renewables. The major investment in the latter would not have happened without the former; politically these are coupled. We already have more renewable electricity than we ever had nuclear. 2/4 carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does-t… 
Emissions from the energy sector have been cut in half since 1990 and the new German coalition plans to have 80% electricity from renewables by 2030 and to phase out coal by 2030. It's the other sectors which have failed so far to deliver their cuts. 3/4
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Thus complaints about Germany's slow emissions reductions are justified, but please focus on the real problems: our love of big cars, lack of a general speed limit, our industrial agriculture with big meat exports and the slow pace of renovating our building stock (heating).
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