Links tagged “Figueres”
- Former UN climate chief Figueres urges development of a COVID ‘people’s vaccine’ as an opportunity ‘to exercise the muscle of international cooperation which is critical for climate change’
Reuters: Figueres, one of the signatories of the open letter for a “people’s vaccine”, said working together to find a solution to the pandemic was an opportunity “to exercise the muscle of international cooperation which is critical for climate change”. ...
Should we Celebrate! Global economic collapse amid lockdowns means we can meet UN Paris pact! -
Reuters: Global emissions of climate-changing gases are expected to drop 8% this year, according to the International Energy Agency. That is a touch more than the 7.6% drop scientists say is needed each year this decade to meet the Paris accord goal of holding global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times.
- Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres: We need to ‘converge the solutions’ to coronavirus & climate ‘because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change’
UN Paris architect Christiana Figueres: We have an "incredible responsibility" to "actually converge the solutions -- at least the financial solutions -- to coronavirus to the financial solutions for climate. Because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change."
- Former UN Climate Chief issues another tipping point of ‘a decade at best’ to ‘control’ climate or ‘we will really be condemned to an endless destruction’ – ‘Social change comes about when 3.5% of population is pressing for it…we’re almost there, at the 3.5%’
- Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres: Slower economic growth from coronavirus ‘may be good for climate’ – ‘There is less trade, less travel, less commerce’
Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked former UN chief Figueres: "Is there any sense that this could be self-controlling -- that as we see economic growth possibly slowing down around the world, because of coronavirus -- that's actually good for the climate?"
Christiana Figueres replied: "Well, that is, ironically, of course, the other side of this -- right? It may be good for climate. But I think -- because there is less trade, there's less travel, there's less commerce."
Weaponizing Coronavirus: Figueres also said: Expect more disease outbreaks ‘if we continue to deny, delude and delay on climate change’
Figueres also used the coronavirus as an opportunity to plug the UN's campaign to reduce and stop meat-eating around the world. "If we continue to eat animals, we will actually be poisoning ourselves and being the genesis new diseases that we have not seen before," Figueres explained. [See: ‘Food Police’ –UN Meat report: UN seeks ‘massive expansion of the UN’s regulatory power…lifestyle controls’]
Update: Former UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres: We need to ‘converge the solutions’ to coronavirus & climate ‘because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change’ - UN Paris architect Christiana Figueres: We have an "incredible responsibility" to "actually converge the solutions -- at least the financial solutions -- to coronavirus to the financial solutions for climate. Because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change."
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- Flashback 2012: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres seeks ‘centralized transformation’ that is ‘going to make the life of everyone on the planet very different’
