Almost a decade ago, Al Gore scared the world with an Academy Award-winning documentary that argued climate change was real and inaction could destroy the planet. But as global leaders gear up to ...

A stark new report urges governments and all of us to act now to stop “catastrophic climate change.” The architect of the Paris agreement Christiana Figueres joins the program to discuss. Read ...

Say the name Figueres in Costa Rica and it's bound to get a reaction. José "Don Pepe" Figueres led the 1948 revolution, was president three times, nationalised the banks and gave women and black ...

The UN climate chief is confident that the Paris summit can make history and produce a landmark deal to limit future carbon emissions – but any success depends on her pivotal role The offices of the ...

BERLIN — In May of last year, Christiana Figueres came up to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The U.N. climate chief was there to see the Norwegian government-run global seed vault, a kind of ...

United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres has announced she will step down from her position in July, ending a six-year run that culminated in the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement in ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s getting on for 7pm inside the enormous World Conference Center in Bonn, where I’m waiting for Christiana ...

At first glance, Christiana Figueres doesn’t have that many reasons to be optimistic. The Costa Rican diplomat played a pivotal role in negotiating the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015. But while the ...