News Headline
Paris Climate Agreement Architects Make a Case for “Stubborn Optimism”
Source
Scientific American
Publication Date
2020-03-25
When Christiana Figueres took the reins of the United Nations’ international climate negotiations in 2010, hopes were not high that the world would come together to forge an agreement to tackle global warming—especially after talks had fallen apart in Copenhagen the previous year. In fact, when she was asked at a press conference if she thought such a global agreement would ever be possible, she replied, “Not in my lifetime.”