Poor Germany. After all of the green lectures about how we can have both economic growth and their brand of environmental protection, it appears that maybe tough choices are in order:

Economic Growth threatens German Emissions Targets
Handelsblatt, 27 March 2007
An unexpectedly soaring growth rate of the German economy is foiling the plans of environmentalists.
It is more difficult to reduce CO2 emissions when the economy is booming.
Germany has made significant progress in recent years to achieve Kyoto goals. Nevertheless, it will be difficult in the end to fulfil the target…
Although no official emissions data for 2006 have been released yet, there are important indicators that indicate that CO2 emissions have risen. Energy production has risen by 2.6% in 2006…..