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Paris taught me how to do what is necessary to combat climate change

To the world leaders mustering in Davos: set your minds to reaching net-zero emissions, and you can forge the future we need.
  1. Christiana Figueres

    1. Christiana Figueres was the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010 to 2016. She is a co-founder of Global Optimism, an enterprise that aims to stimulate social and environmental change, and co-author of the forthcoming book The Future We Choose.

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Francois Hollande, Ban Ki-moon and others listen to Christiana Figueres speak at the COP21 conference in Paris 2015

Christiana Figueres at the 21st United Nations Climate Change Conference. She led the negotiations that produced the 2015 Paris agreement. Credit: Francois Mori/AP/Shutterstock

As political leaders, industry executives and celebrities gather this week for their yearly networking meeting in Davos, Switzerland, top of their agenda is the need to halve global carbon emissions by 2030.

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Nature 577, 470-471 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00112-6

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