GERMAN GOV – For the year 2008 Germany met its climate protection goal in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol and remains an international frontrunner in the area of climate protection. Greenhouse gas emissions in 2008 sank by 22.2 percent over 1990 levels, a volume equivalent to nearly 280 million tons. The inventories of 1990-2008, as stipulated by the Climate Framework Convention (UNFCCC), were published and submitted to the international committees in April 2010. Read More