Congratulations to Christiana

Today we congratulate our friend, colleague and mentor Christiana Figueres, who has been selected as the new Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC. You can read the press announcements here: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=624&ArticleID=6568&l=en

Christiana is incredibly well qualified for this position and has been thinking of the post-Kyoto agreement since 2002, when I first started working with her. Christiana is brilliant, a superior communicator and consensus builder and very hard worker. She also has the ability to see issues from many different sides- critical for success in the next global climate treaty.

A couple of months ago, when I was wondering why we sometimes choose to dedicate our lives to such difficult and challenging matters such as climate change, I thought of the people that work in the field. I recalled Christiana, who has selflessly and passionately dedicated her life to climate change. And I was happy that she was doing this, because it meant that there are people who dedicate their lives to making this a better world for us and for our children.

We wish Christiana the best of luck.