Germany is the clear leader for non-hydroelectric renewable generation (which is, after all, the difficult form, and the form that can be rolled out worldwide).

Germany is the clear leader for non-hydroelectric renewable generation (which is, after all, the difficult form, and the form that can be rolled out worldwide). Curiously enough, though, it is outperformed by the UK and particularly France, in actual CO2 emissions: https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=en_atm_co2e_pc&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:DEU:FRA:GBR&ifdim=region&ind=false https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9... That is, because of its reliance on coal. The UK, in comparison, gets much of its energy from gas, and France nuclear.