Master's, Anthropology, London School of Economics; Certificate in Organizational Development, Georgetown University. 1982, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Costa Rica, Bonn, Germany; 1987-88, Director, International Cooperation, Ministry of Planning, Costa Rica; 1988-90, Chief of Staff to Minister of Agriculture; 1994-96, Director, Technical Secretariat, Renewable Energy in Americas; 1995, founded Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas, a non-profit think tank for climate change policy and capacity building; served as Director until 2003; 2008-09, Vice-President, Bureau of the Conference of Parties; adviser to private sector on how to play leadership role in mitigation. Since May 2010, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Former member, several boards of non-governmental organizations involved in climate change issues, including Voluntary Carbon Standard. Author on design of climate solutions.
2016 was undoubtedly a tumultuous year, but there are reasons to believe that significant progress is being made in the fight against climate change, says Christiana Figueres.
A new, aviation-specific, climate agreement is aiming to cap net emissions at 2020 levels.
When the new UN secretary-general takes office, they'll have the task of reforming the organization so it can deal with 21st-century challenges, says one of the candidates for the job.
Achim Steiner and Christiana Figueres on why the Paris Agreement, although a landmark achievement, was just the beginning.
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There is no doubt that if we are to keep global warming below 2°C, we will need to make significant transformations to the finance sector. This transformation needs to be both orderly and...
The ocean and the atmosphere are linked in ways that are only just beginning to be fully understood. Like siblings, the sky above us and the waters around us share many characteristics – ...
With promising milestones on the horizon for climate change and the development agenda this year, much of the discussion among public and private sector leaders at the World Economic Foru...
In the past, action to combat climate change was viewed largely as running counter to economic growth, with “going green” implying a sacrifice of prosperity for the sake of the environmen...
En el pasado, la acción contra el cambio climático se veía a menudo como un obstáculo al crecimiento económico. Se consideraba que apostar por lo “verde” significaba sacrificar la prosper...
Over the past three to four years we’ve seen extreme weather events happening more frequently and more intensely in a growing number of countries. That is one reason why people have woken...
In a series of blog posts curated by the World Economic Forum’s Climate Change Initiatives, a number of leading voices will present their perspectives on climate change. Contributions are...
