Christiana Figueres Says Now Is D-Day For Fossil Fuels
Christiana Figueres is not a name known to most people, yet she has affected the lives of almost everyone on Earth. A native of Costa Rica, she is a diplomat and climate negotiator who served on the board for the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change between 2010 and 2016. She was also one of the main architects behind the 2015 Paris Agreement that established a goal of limiting global warming to 1º C.
Instead, what we see is international oil companies cutting back, slowing down or, at best, painfully maintaining their decarbonization commitments, paying higher dividends to shareholders, buying back more shares and — in some countries — lobbying governments to reverse clean energy policies while paying lip service to change.
Of course, there are some exceptions to these sweeping generalizations, but the trend is clear. What are the leaders of the fossil industry thinking? As we evolve the global economy, we have one way forward: decarbonize quickly enough to avert the worst of climate impacts, especially the impacts upon the most vulnerable.
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