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Members of the Green party protesting against coal (Photo: GrueneNRW)

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Can Germany phase out coal power?

Members of the Green party protesting against coal (Photo: GrueneNRW)

On the last day of last December's climate summit in Paris, German environment minister Barbara Hendricks could be seen walking in the first row of a pack of climate negotiators.

As the group of ministers and envoys, who had banded together as the so-called High Ambition Coalition, headed towards the plenary hall, they were all smiling and joking in the expectation of a binding deal to limit global warming.

But privately, Hen...

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