25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020
Even the most courageous leaders have moments of doubt.
“I never think I am doing enough,” admitted Christiana Figueres, the Costa Rican diplomat who led the United Nations negotiations that yielded the historic Paris Agreement, during a New York interview in late February to mark the publication of her new book, “The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis.”
Her moment of self-reflection came during the audience question-and-answer session, after a Brazilian university student asked for tips to build her own self-confidence about addressing the climate crisis.
Choking back tears, and pointing to her two daughters as her perennial inspiration, Figueres continued: “We’ve got to turn this around. There is no way that my generation can turn over the table without changing the trajectory. It is our solemn responsibility.”
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