Connie Hedegaard, the president of the Conference of the Parties and soon to be Denmark’s representative on the European Commission, briefly speaks with Climate-Change.tv to give her opinion on the state of the negotiations and the importance of the minister-level segment of the negotiations. Also see Connie Hedegaard, later at Copenhagen. And Kunihiko Shimada, Principal International Policy Coordinator, Global Environmental Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan, speaking from Copenhagen