Germany should „not take on the role of a pioneer“ when it comes to climate action, demanded FDP leader Christian Lindner last week in his controversial paper on the „economic transition.“ What the Finance Minister obviously overlooked: Germany is no longer a pioneer anyway. The share of renewable energies in electricity generation, for example, is far higher in many other countries. In Europe, these include all Scandinavian countries, Estonia and Latvia as well as Portugal; globally, Brazil, Canada and New Zealand are also much further ahead in the expansion of renewables.