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Beauty and personal care company Avon announced in April its own phase-out plan.
Belgium and Switzerland soon followed with similar phase-out plans.
"Phase-out of emissions from coal is itself an enormous challenge," Hansen wrote.
Without a drastic slowdown in emissions within the next decade, the phase-out date could happen much earlier, probably before 2050.
Other things on the Greens' wishlist include a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and the phase-out of carbon-intensive brown coal.
One of the greatest dangers the world faces is the possibility that a vocal minority of anti-nuclear activists could prevent phase-out of coal emissions.
"By committing to halving emissions in the energy sector, the government's climate action plans effectively hail the phase-out of the coal industry and the end of the era of the combustion engine," said climate expert Karsten Smid.
Flasbarth also rebutted suggestions that Germany's nuclear phase-out could increase its greenhouse gas emissions, which it plans to cut 40% by 2020.
Even Social Democrat leader and deputy chancellor Sigmar Gabriel had until recently vetoed the plans, expressing concerns that a phase-out of brown coal, which causes the highest CO2 emissions per ton when burned, could lead to large-scale job losses in affected regions.
Plans for this proposed phase-out should be abandoned.
Halting climate change requires fossil fuel phase-out in a few decades, thus emission reductions of several percent per year.
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