Geography of Denmark capital Copenhagen on Zealand; Århus, Aalborg and Esbjerg in Jutland; and Odense on Funen. Denmark experiences a temperate climate. This means that the winters are mild and windy and the summers are cool. The local terrain is generally flat with a few gently rolling plains. The territory of Denmark includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Its position gives Denmark complete control of the Danish Straits (Skagerrak and Kattegat) linking the Baltic and North Seas. The country's natural resources include petroleum, natural gas, fish, salt,
Ministry of Environment (Denmark) name. In a press release on 21 March 2007, the ministry announced that it would be hosting the COP-15 summit in 2009. COP 15 took place in Copenhagen from 7 December to 18 December 2009. Ministry of Environment (Denmark) Ministry of the Environment of Denmark () is the Danish ministry in charge of near all matters concerning Environmental issues in Denmark. The head office is in Copenhagen. Created in 1971 as the Ministry of Pollution Combating (""Ministeriet for forureningsbekæmpelse""), it changed its name in 1973 to the current Ministry of the Environment. However, from 1994 to 2005 it was known