The climate gets its own commissioner's post

The EU Commission has created the new post of Commissioner for the Climate, which Connie Hedegaard, the current Danish Minister for Climate and Energy, will occupy. According to the conservative daily Berlingkse Tidende she is perfectly qualified for the job. "Connie Hedegaard can now concentrate one hundred percent on what qualifies her for the commissioner post: She is perhaps the politician with the strongest network, the most knowledge of details and the international status that is necessary to make inroads in the area of climate policy. It wouldn't have helped if she had to deal with all the big and small problems in the energy and environment sector too. But instead [President of EU Commission José Manuel] Barroso has signalled that climate policy will be given particular attention in the coming years and that Connie Hedegaard has been given a special mandate that transcends the limits of individual portfolios within the Commission."

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