Former Head of UN Climate Change Convention, Co-founder of Global Optimism Ltd., co-author of The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis, co-presenter of the Outrage + Optimism podcast.
With barely a month to go before the crucial United Nations climate change conference in Glasgow, there’s no guarantee humanity will do what is necessary to keep warming under 1.5 degrees...
From the car to the colour TV, disruptive ideas typically scale from 2-3% to over 80% market share within 10-15 years. Take renewable energy: in 2014, one year before the Paris Agreement ...
Taking climate action is good for the planet, society and the corporate bottom-line. Plain and simple.
This is an extract from the World Economic Forum's Book Club pick for March 2020: The Future We Choose by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac. Join our Book Club to discuss.
The race is on. This northern summer’s deadly, record-breaking heatwaves and wildfires leave us in no doubt that the impacts of global warming are accelerating, in many cases much faster ...
In 2016, after decades of painstaking work to deliver environmental progress based on government and corporate cooperation, we saw important political shifts in the world. The shocks of B...
As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, demand for air travel is growing, with more than 30,000 new large aircraft expected to take to the skies in the next few years. But if we...
2015年，我们庆祝了联合国成立70周年。联合国确实有很多地方值得我们骄傲和感激。在过去一年中，联合国成员国通过了饱含各国雄心壮志的发展规划《2030年议程》和具有里程碑式意义的气候变化《巴黎协定》（我很荣幸在签订《协定》的过程中扮演了重要角色）。这些议程和协定再次证明了当各会员国为了共同目标团结一致时，联合国将得以拥有强大权力和重要价值。 与此同时，当今世界正面临着一...
Over the past year we have been celebrating 70 years of the United Nations and indeed, there is much to be proud of and grateful for. Over the past year alone, Member States adopted an am...
Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to climate change. It...
