Danish envoy optimistic about climate summit

Obviously Danish officials have been very focused on the summit, and you have watched expectations go up and down and now up again after APEC. How do you feel now that the summit is beginning?

We have been fairly optimistic all along. At the same time we realized that in the process up to the meeting there would be a phase with many different announcements, many different points of view, maybe also some confusion.

As my prime minister explained at APEC in Singapore, we were heading for one agreement, two purposes. The first purpose: to lock in the political commitment that is already there and at the time was emerging, in terms of targets, actions and finance. And we got to lock in that commitment to serve as a basis for immediate action even before we had a ratified text.