Indeed:

· Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
· Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
· Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
· Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.

indeed...

That wasn't the point of the communique though - the point directed at the U.S., not any measure of success that the FRG had. In fact the only way it could be generally outwardly directed in respect to German success in that area is if you see America as the "everything" out there of the subject of criticism.

...which it isn't. I look forward to seeing a similar missive directed at the Chinese or Indian governments.

One other thing you may notice: not only is the emmission data so narrowly interpreted so as to not include absorption, the only places emmissions could genuinely drop are in places where industrial output is stagnating and the population is dropping or aging its way out of the industrial workforce. The GDR shutting down was just that: a reduction of human activity.
By any real measure, very few of the gains are being achieved by "green economy" initiatives, and the air grew cleaner since the late 80s through regulation having nothing to do with the regulated curbing of CO2 which has barely started.

Gotta love that Jürgen Trittin, eh? THe idea that there is a world view out there that can convince people that a political ideology can cause hurricanes is rather amusing. It's also reminiscent of the methods by which cult programming works... training people to see external events as a trigger to a pre-positioned feeling (usually negative) to exert from them a desired response followed by some sort of emotional reward. It's a sort of slap and tickle for the fans of mass pathology out there.

You're forgetting about the unceasing repetition of that very Weltanschauung - the notion that hurricanes, and by some, the Asian Tsunami, were caused by American caused Global Warming.

New Orleans, LA--Aerial views of damage caused from Hurricane Katrina the day after the hurricane hit August 30, 2005.

September 01, 2005 “Katrina’s Real Name is Global Warming”

In Germany, Environmental Minister Jurgen Tritten sparked a political firestorm this week when he penned an article in a German newspaper saying “Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced worldwide. The US has, up until this point, had its eyes closed to this emergency.” He linked Hurricane Katrina to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emission.

The hurricane had already spent 10 days menacing islands in the Caribbean.

This was a redux of several previous hurricanes, but it was never trotted out into the legitimate media when it ocurred with the same frequency and severity when the president's name was Clinton and not Bush.