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UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres To Step Down, Praises Governments For Paris Pact
2016-02-20 04:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tech Times: Christiana Figueres announced that she will step down from her post as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UFCCC) in July and will not consider an extension. This marks the end of a six-year term that was concluded with the adoption of the Paris Agreement in December 2015. Figueres, a civil official from Costa Rica, was appointed the agency since 2010. She helped draft the Paris agreement along with other leaders from across the globe. The Paris Agreement...
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UN climate chief to step down
2016-02-19 17:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The UN's top climate diplomat, Christiana Figueres, has said she will leave her post in July. Ms Figueres said she would not accept an extension of her appointment which finishes this summer. As executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, she played a key role in the talks that lead to the Paris Climate Agreement. Her contribution to the negotiation process was praised as "really extraordinary". Ms Figueres became executive secretary in the wake of the Copenhagen climate...
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UN climate change chief steps down after historic Paris deal
2016-02-19 16:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The UNs climate chief said on Friday she will step down in July, at the end of a six-year term, and praised governments for reaching a 195-nation deal in Paris in December to shift the world economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energies. Christiana Figueres, a 59-year-old Costa Rican, said she would not accept any extension of her term as head of the Bonn-based UN Climate Change Secretariat after what she called the historic Paris Agreement. We now move into a phase of urgent implementation,...
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres to step down
2016-02-19 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres has announced she will step down from her position in July, ending a six-year run that culminated in the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement in December. The Paris deal marked the first time that all countries -- including the richest and poorest nations -- agreed to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change. As head of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Figueres played a major role in...
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Climate change the chief culprit for stormy winter weather
2016-02-02 02:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Irish Times: If the weather this winter seems stormier than usual, that is because it is. It is every bit as bad as the storm-ridden winter of 2013-14, according to climate data from Met Éireann. And climate change can now be blamed for the stormy conditions we have had to endure, at least during 2013-14. New research out of Oxford shows the extreme rainfalls that flooded the UK during that winter were associated with global warming. Storm Henry, which cleared our shores this morning, counts as the eighth...
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