Press release
29 June 2009
Ministry of the Environment
Andreas Carlgren to Greenland on 30 June-3 July
Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren will be visiting Greenland to take part in the fifth of a series of meetings under the framework of the Greenland Dialogue. Environment ministers from 30 countries will gather for informal discussions on key issues in the international negotiations on climate change.
The meeting, to be held in Ilulissat, is the fifth in a series of informal climate meetings initiated in 2005 by the Danish Government. Sweden organised the 2007 meeting held in Riksgränsen in June.
The Greenland Dialogue is particularly important this year in view of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December.
"I am hoping for a good discussion with representatives from both industrial and developing countries on the shape of the agreement in Copenhagen. As regards the current climate talks, the only clear bid has been presented by the EU. There is no Plan B. The parties have between now and December to come up with ways to move forward," says Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren.
While in Ilulissat, the ministers will also take part in several excursions in the region to witness the consequences of climate change at first hand.
Sweden's chief negotiator on climate issues, Anders Turesson, will also be attending.
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