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...like me, that's all you might know about the place, along with the fact that was once home to Hans Christian Andersen, Kierkegaard and Hamlet. But next winter, Copenhagen will become the center of the climate change world. In December 2009, the capital of Denmark will host the 15th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, better known as the UN climate change summit. It happens every year - the most recent one was held last December on the Indonesian island of Bali - but Copenhagen will be special. The Kyoto Protocol, which now commits nearly every developed...
...good news is that there may be no country in the world better prepared than Denmark to play host to a climate summit that could - just maybe - decide the fate of the world. As you leave Copenhagen's airport, you see soaring wind turbines along the side of the road, spinning in the nearly always present breeze. Get used to the sight - Denmark is a world leader in wind energy, and produces more than 10% of its power from turbines. That's meant cleaner air and greener jobs. The homegrown wind company Vestas is a world leader earning $8 billion...
More important than its uber-European urban livability, Denmark is taking its responsibility as the host of the 2009 climate summit seriously. Last year the government split its Environment Ministry in two. The original, now smaller, Ministry of the Environment was tasked with covering local pollution and wildlife issues, while the new Ministry of Climate and Energy was formed to focus specifically on global warming and alternative energy, with an eye toward preparing the way for Denmark's leadership on climate change - at the UN summit and at home, by further reducing its own carbon footprint. "We know we have...
...course, if Denmark really were running international climate negotiations, the world would be in much better - and cooler - shape. But ultimately, the road to a new climate deal runs through one city: Washington. "The U.S. has to be a part of any new climate agreement," says Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the UN's Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "In the absence of that, you won't have a response from the large number of countries needed for a collective response." If Washington leads, the big developing countries like India and China will be forced to follow...
...group of extremists in a corner of one Pakistani province can be the greatest threat to the U.S. Pakistan is not a failing state. Criticism must have proportions and not be propaganda against a country that has paid a high price for being America's friend. Bashy Quraishy, FREDERIKSBERG, DENMARK...