Delegates at Copenhagen's Bella Centre, the site of the United Nations' climate change summit. (Patricia Bell/CBC)Political delegates from Canada's three northern territories have arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Monday for week two of the United Nations' climate change summit.

Representing the North in Copenhagen are premiers Eva Aariak of Nunavut and Floyd Roland of the Northwest Territories, as well as officials from their respective governments.

Yukon Environment Minister Elaine Taylor, who is also that territory's deputy premier, is leading the region's largest group to Copenhagen with a total 11 government officials in her delegation.

Monday proved to be a chaotic day for many of the northern delegates, as they waited to get accredited at the conference centre where the summit is taking place.

"The crowd was very tight and you couldn't even turn around," said Yukon Liberal MLA Eric Fairclough, who added that he spent more than six hours in line to register.

"Whenever there was a push from the back, you ended up pushing forward. And I think a lot of people that were in line were just thinking of their own safety."

Emily Karpik, left, Sandi Vincent and Pam Gross are three youth delegates from Nunavut at the Copenhagen summit. (Patricia Bell/CBC)While some northerners have already raised concerns about the costs associated with the delegations' trips to Copenhagen, northern Canadian youth who are already at the climate change summit say they're pleased to see political representatives from their own region.

"It's good to have a voice and it's good to have other fellow northerners here, as Inuit and as representatives from the North," said Pam Gross, an indigenous Canadian representative from Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and Hay River, N.W.T.

Delegate Amber Church of Whitehorse said she is disappointed not to see Yukon Premier Dennis Fentie in Copenhagen, adding that the summit should be his biggest priority.

"Climate change is the biggest crisis facing humanity," said Church, "Our premier should be here and should be fighting to see a clean, fair, just deal happening here."

Others, like Daniel T'seleie of Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., say they hope the arrival of Roland and Aariak will step up pressure on the Canadian government to act on climate change.

"Basically send that message that the North is being hit really hard, and that Canada is simply not taking a leadership role here, and Canada needs to take a leadership role," he said.

Federal Environment Minister Jim Prentice met with the provincial and territorial premiers behind closed doors earlier on Monday.