Next week will be an important week for the discussions on climate change - and Sweden will have a great opportunity to play an influential role. Apperently "green diplomacy" is the strategy.
On the website www.se2009.eu, Lars-Erik Liljelund (climate coordinator during the Swedish Presidency and climate adviser to the Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt)describes three occasions next week when climate issues will be discussed in detail. The first is a summit on climate change convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 22 September. Climate change will also be discussed in the General Assembly the next day, 23 September. In addition, climate change will be on the agenda at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh on 24–25 September.
According to Mr Liljelund (when asked about what role Sweden will play in the negotiations during the General Assembly week):
“During the negotiations, the Prime Minister will alternate between speaking on Sweden’s behalf and speaking on behalf of the EU. For example, the Prime Minister will be one of a few opening speakers during the climate summit on 22 September. He has been explicitly asked to speak more as a Swede than as EU President on this occasion.”
GO Green diplomacy! (I guess...) ?
/Robert
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