A taz.de report from the COP31 climate conference in Antalya has activists, led by Luisa Neubauer, eating a cake slice meant for the absent Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who drew the Climate Action Network's mocking 'Fossil of the Day' along with eight other skipping leaders. The Germanwatch Climate Protection Index has Germany slipping to 25th for the third year running, a slide Germanwatch's Jan Burck attributes to Economics Minister Katherina Reiche.