Honest question: Where is the difference between the two?

Yeah, they want to, but did not so far and as far as I can see there is also no further push in that direction.

Well, since politicians are the ones passing the laws we still have to have a way to force them to do that.

Over here in Germany our notoriously car-loving Minister of Transportation has been in breach of law for years by now, refusing to put in place measures to reduce CO² emissions in the transportation sector.

So eh, obviously you survived. But what about the rest?