On 12 December 2015, 193 countries and the European Union adopted the Paris climate agreement. It legally committed countries to climate action plans, designed to stop global temperatures rising 2C ...
Christiana Figueres was featured on BBC’s list of 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2023. Figueres is the only Central American selected and one of the few Latin Americans.
Ten years after the Paris Agreement was signed on 12 December 2015, the world is warming faster than countries are cutting ...
A girl’s love of the rainforest leads to a role helping to protect the planet in this climate-positive biography of Christiana Figueres (b. 1956), a diplomat behind the 2015 Paris Agreement. The ...
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Kicking off a conference aiming to ramp up action by the U.S. Catholic Church in response to Pope Francis' landmark encyclical on ecology, Christiana Figueres, the United Nations official who brokered ...
Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen DBE (born 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat who has led national, international and multilateral policy negotiations. She was appointed Executive Secretary of ...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) — Costa Rica has nominated the U.N.'s former lead official on climate change as its candidate to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations. Christiana Figueres is ...
The United Nations Climate Conference, COP28, began Thursday in the United Arab Emirates. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are hoping to hammer out agreements to limit the pollution that’s ...
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A decade after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the treaty’s architect looks back at its legacy
Thousands of diplomats, scientists and activists are in Belém, Brazil this week for COP30, the annual United Nations climate conference. This year’s negotiations also mark 10 years since the approval ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Christiana Figueres was an Executive Secretary for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance ...
Christiana Figueres is a Costa Rican climate change leader and was the head of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010 – 2016, developing the Paris Agreement on Climate Change ...
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