It is indeed implied, BUT making it not explicit is IMO a big problem. Many people are reading these articles' title as "we're almost there with carbon neutral". Even the quotation is playing on this ambiguity "“You become independent of all these kinds of wars or other geopolitical events,” Méndez Galain said."

I personally felt for it for quite some time: as a French we say our electricity is nuclear, so we're much much better than our eco-friendly neighbour Germany wrt carbon. But that's completely missing the point. (I'm not saying we're actually worse than them, but we all have still much to improve)

I fall in the area of people who think journalists' job is not just to report fact, but to properly phrase them to understand the implications, you might disagree with that.