2020 Could Be ‘Humanity’s Finest Hour’: Why a Former Climate Leader Is Hopeful Despite Everything

A Q&A with Christiana Figueres, climate champion and architect of the Paris accord

Hope Reese
OneZero
Published in
8 min readMar 16, 2020

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Christiana Figueres. Photo: Thomas Samson/Getty Images

CChristiana Figueres became perhaps the world’s most influential shaper of global climate policy when she was appointed executive secretary of the United Nations…

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Hope Reese
OneZero

Writer (currently) in Budapest, bylines @NYTimes, @TheAtlantic, @Undarkmag, @VICE, @voxdotcom & more; follow on Twitter @hope_reese; hopereese.com