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...order, to say the least - after eight years of the Bush Administration largely stifling global negotiations on climate change, the world has barely 10 months, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, to prepare for Copenhagen. "There are a lot of challenges now," says Hedegaard, speaking to TIME recently at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. "This is a special challenge, but also a special opportunity." (Listen to Hedegaard talk about the run-up to Copenhagen on this week's Greencast...
...rose 56% while CO2 emissions dropped 35% - and thanks to smart policies and investment, more than a quarter of Denmark's electricity now comes from renewable sources. Danish companies also punch well above their weight in the growing wind turbine industry. To drum up global support for the summit, Hedegaard can easily make the case that the economy doesn't have to come before the environment - even during a global recession. "This isn't just about the climate crisis," she says. "This is about how we will grow for the future...
Whether Copenhagen succeeds, however, isn't up to onlookers like Gore. That job falls to diplomats like Todd Stern, the new U.S. envoy on climate change; international bureaucrats like Yvo de Boer, the crisp Dutch executive-secretary of the United Nations Framework on Climate Change; and politicians like Connie Hedegaard, the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, who will preside over the summit's proceedings...
...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 a responsibility for Copenhagen," says Connie Hedegaard, the Danish Minister for Climate and Energy. "We'll live...