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Michael Bauchmüller, Berlin
How to get to the next meeting quickly? Jennifer Morgan has long since developed a trick for this at climate summits. Cell phone in hand, curly blond head bent over it at a right angle, she hurries across the hallways. In this way, she always seems engrossed in something – and does not have to fear being stopped at every corner. Morgan, 55 and Greenpeace boss for a good five years, is a sought-after interlocutor in global climate diplomacy. “I don’t know a second person in the world with their expertise, networking and credibility,” says Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens). And that’s why Baerbock has now brought her to the foreign office as Germany’s special representative for climate protection and designated state secretary. “My new right hand,” says Baerbock. It’s a green coup. In fact, the second.