Prior to the 2009 Copenhagen climate change summit—that was when Copenhagen hosted the COP/MOP—the then minister of the environment, who's now an EU commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, took a number of delegations from around the world up to Ilulissat, Greenland.
Ilulissat is where the Jakobshavn Glacier comes out and calves into the ocean. Satellite photos and other things consistently show that this glacier is moving a lot faster than it used to in the past. Showing people Greenland, and showing them what is actually happening, and coupling that with scientific information—obviously Ilulissat and the glacier are now a UNESCO heritage site as well—was really powerful in giving people an understanding of what climate change-provoking measures in the south do to the north.
That was the Danish government's strategy in terms of educating and making sure the northern perspective was at least pulled into the conversation. That's what we could do at the time, and I understand from the minister that she had a lot of productive conversations with delegations. There's nothing like seeing things first-hand to give you perspective on what's actually happening. That's the way the Danish government approached it.