The United Nations summit in Denmark will try to agree on how to counter climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto treaty protocol to curb harmful emissions.

Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Africa’s point man at the Copenhagen climate-change summit next month is prime minister of drought- stricken Ethiopia, a former Marxist rebel who favors tailored suits and has coaxed billions of dollars in aid from the West.

Meles Zenawi, 54, who trained as a doctor before taking up arms and eventually toppling the country’s Communist regime in 1991, in August was named climate spokesman for Africa, the continent scientists say is most vulnerable to global warming.