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The most important person at the Paris climate talks is a woman from tiny Costa Rica

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Christina Figueres at the COP17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011. [Photo by UNclimatechange from Bonn, Germany - flickr: DSC_1485. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons]

Christina Figueres at the COP17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011. [Photo by UNclimatechange from Bonn, Germany - flickr: DSC_1485. Licensed under CC BY 2.0 via Commons]

Christiana Figueres’ mandate is no small task: Persuade world leaders to make drastic cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions and avoid catastrophic global warming. Figueres, the United Nations climate chief, plays a pivotal role in bringing diplomats, business executives and community groups to the negotiating table — all with the aim of reaching a global agreement…


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  • Sam

    Her brother is no saint. I hope she does well for Costa Rica.

  • gc

    sure like to see her pay package.
    i wonder if she absorbs herself in charts showing the financial impossibility of Costa Rica’s unfunded liabilities. the impossibility of generating enough tax revenue to pay for the insane government that is growing by leaps and bounds. charts showing the disincentives built into Costa Rica’s economic system that discourage almost everything. where is that conference being held?

  • CostaRicaChris

    Ridiculous- Even if Costa Rica delivered on its green policies, laws and rhetoric, she would hardly be significant, because CR itself is not so. Because CR does not deliver, her views carry little credibility, though they sound wonderful to the ill informed.

    • Karen Mata

      As an aside, this woman is clearly no great intellect. When you come from a well connected family, and your brother is a West Point grad, one applies to Radcliffe, Princeton, Smith, the Seven Sister colleges, and your final backup is Swarthmore.

  • prdatki

    When will people learn, Global warming, green hose gasse etc. is the biggest hoax ever , con , snow job, etc, ever put in front of Man. Do you really believe Al Gore, Kennedys and stupid Liberals. ? Yes the Climate changes just ask T Rex and his buddies. Does man have any thing to do with it,maybe but not much. I f man did not destroy the world from 1938-1947 when over 100 million people died and massive amount of bombs, leaded gas etc and un filtered industry. THen now is nothing!

    If you believe in man made Global Warming you are truly a fool !

  • Chris Thomas

    Her family come from dirty money they have raped and pillaged CR for decades the only reason her father got rid of the army is so no coup would ever be attempted against the CR government and they could continue raping the average Costa Ricans, she comes from dirty money that has laundered to come clean at the other end. This woman should not be praised but jailed and tortured. Fix CR’s problems before you go solving other people’s problems.

    • Yeims

      In her own words she has admitted that her main goal is to destroy the world economies.

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