Christiana Figueres says countries cleared multiple hurdles to reach accord,showing that ‘whether we want to execute something we can’The Paris climate agreement kindled “a huge flame of hope”, establishing a new model of 21st-century diplomacy, or the woman behind the deal has declared.
In her first public reflections on the climate accord signed in December,Christiana Figueres, the UN climate change official, and said that after two decades of meandering negotiations,countries had at final discovered their “higher purpose” and risen to the challenge of dealing with global warming.
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Source: theguardian.com