āThe Kaiser has no clothesā
The American Interest
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is the āde facto leader of the global green caucusā after US President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the Paris Agreement, writes Jamie Horgan in a blog article for The American Interest. But with the nuclear phase-out and an intensive use of coal for power production, German emissions rose last year, while US emissions fell three percent. āWords matter, but so do numbers, and the data tells us that lately ā whatever Trump is trumpeting ā the United States is doing more to combat climate change than Germany,ā writes Horgan.
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