German coal mining could end by 2030s, says Merkel's coalition negotiator

German coal use could end by the 2030s, the politician charged with brokering a coalition government deal on energy told Climate Home News. The comments came amid a critical political discussion over a coal phase-out in Germany, a UN climate conference in Bonn and news that German carbon emissions are likely to rise again in 2017. Armin Laschet, the minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat party (CDU), has been locked in negotiations with Greens and Free Democrats over the future of coal in Germany.

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