In 1990, she abandoned her political activities to follow a career in journalism, but in 2004 came back as Denmark’s environment minister in a centre-right coalition. In that role she tirelessly championed efforts to raise the national and international focus of climate issues.
She has taken plenty of hard political knocks along the way, most notably facing harsh criticism over her part in hosting the disastrous 2009 UN climate conference in Copenhagen, where sky-high global expectations were cruelly dashed by a weak political outcome.
However,
