A stark new report urges governments and all of us to act now to stop “catastrophic climate change.” The architect of the Paris agreement Christiana Figueres joins the program to discuss. Read ...

Almost a decade ago, Al Gore scared the world with an Academy Award-winning documentary that argued climate change was real and inaction could destroy the planet. But as global leaders gear up to ...

The UN climate chief is confident that the Paris summit can make history and produce a landmark deal to limit future carbon emissions – but any success depends on her pivotal role The offices of the ...

Say the name Figueres in Costa Rica and it's bound to get a reaction. José "Don Pepe" Figueres led the 1948 revolution, was president three times, nationalised the banks and gave women and black ...

BERLIN — In May of last year, Christiana Figueres came up to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The U.N. climate chief was there to see the Norwegian government-run global seed vault, a kind of ...

A thousand chattering girls from prestigious St Catherine's in Sydney's eastern suburbs settle themselves on the floor of the school's assembly hall, the din not unlike that inside a giant aviary.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It’s getting on for 7pm inside the enormous World Conference Center in Bonn, where I’m waiting for Christiana ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres says she will leave her post in July after six years in charge of the diplomatic effort to fight global warming. The Costa Rican diplomat’s ...