The recent Paris climate accord was the result of work by thousands of players from across the world — including dozens from the Yale community. But no one played a more central role at the historic negotiations than Christiana Figueres, who has piloted the global climate talks since 2010.
Figueres, who as Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) spent six years convincing nearly 200 countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, has called the climate accord a “historical achievement.” But she also knows that the hard work has just begun.
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