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Former commissioner gets ready for climate change talks.
Does anyone in Brussels remember Ritt Bjerregaard? She was European commissioner for the environment in 1995-99 and later Denmark's farm minister.
Since 2006 she has been mayor of Copenhagen, a post she will hold until the end of the year. So she will be host, of sorts, to the UN's conference on climate change, which starts on Monday (7 December). When Bjerregaard was a commissioner and was attending international negotiations, it was not unknown for her to leave the conferences in the tender care of her officials while she slipped out to do a bit of shopping (New York was a favourite venue).
So, as a sometime environmentalist, will she want the delegates to attend the negotiations assiduously? Or will she be hoping that they follow her example and do some Christmas shopping?
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