Copenhagen - Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is to discuss climate change at the Commonwealth heads of government meeting later this week, his office said Monday. Rasmussen has been engaged in efforts to secure support for a politically binding deal at the United Nations climate change summit, which Denmark hosts in December.
About 50 heads of government are due to attend the two-day Commonwealth Summit in Trinidad and Tobago on Friday, including British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, and Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy was also due to attend the meeting.
Rasmussen has invited 192 heads of government and state to the climate change summit Copenhagen on December 7-18.
