While the EU will also introduce emissions trading for the transport and buildings sectors, climate action “cannot just be pushed off to Europe”, said Knopf, arguing that the new system would only be introduced by 2027, and that the initial emissions price is too low to ensure climate targets are met. Germany’s transport sector missed its 2022 greenhouse gas reduction target and a necessary trend reversal is nowhere in sight, said the council in its annual assessment of the previous year’s emissions data.