Connie Hedegaard to be Denmark's New Climate Comissioner

Hedegaard will swap her title as Climate and Energy Minister to the more long-winded Minister for the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009.

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November 23, 2009

Connie Hedegaard, the former Danish Climate and Energy Minister will take position as the Danish Minister for the UN Climate Change Conference effective immediately.  She will remain in the cabinet as 'Minister for the UN's Climate Conference in Copenhagen' until the conclusion of COP15 in the end of December.  Most predicted that the Liberal Party's spokesman, Lars Christian Lilleholt as the most likely candidate.

Please read more at the Copenhagen Post here.

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