Danish Premier Says Climate Outweighs Any Russia, China Tensions

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said international efforts to reduce carbon emissions must move forward, regardless of geopolitical tensions or disagreements in other areas.

“If you try to put all sorts of other agendas on the same table, then I don’t think we’ll achieve the things we need to achieve globally,” Frederiksen said in an interview Wednesday when asked about negotiating with Russia or China. “We can easily, and I think that’s also the basis of the Paris Agreement, have disagreements in all kinds of areas and then you can have an agreement on climate, where you work together to reduce carbon emissions.”