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Germany has closed three nuclear power plants as part of the govenment's plan to entirely phase out nuclear energy by the end of 2022. Can renewables pick up the slack or will coal-fire plants be needed in their absence? Jakob Schlandt, Editor-in-Chief of the climate team at the Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel, gives us his view. Conservationist Jane Goodall has declared that we cannot tackle climate change without also tackling poverty. Our environment correspondent Justin Rowlatt looks closer at the links between poverty alleviation and a greener planet. Finally, to ring in the new year, Nisha Patel brings us an extended report with the cocktail trends to look out for in 2022.

(Image: Grohnde Nuclear Power Plant, pictured in November 2021 before it was shuttered. Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)