The inside story of the Paris climate agreement | Christiana Figueres

What would you do if your job was to save the planet? When Christiana Figueres was tapped by the UN to lead the Paris climate conference (COP 21) in December 2015, she reacted the way many...

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I have one more reason for optimism:climate change.Maybe you don't believe it, but here is the fact.On December 12, 2015,in Paris, under the United Nations,195 governments got togetherand unanimously --if you've worked with governments, you know how difficult that is --unanimously decidedto intentionally change the course of the global economyin order to protect the most vulnerableand improve the life of all of us.Now, that is a remarkable achievement.(Applause)But it is even more remarkableif you consider where we had been just a few years ago.2009, Copenhagen.Who remembers Copenhagen?Well, after years of working toward a climate agreement,the same governments convened in Copenhagenand failed miserably.Why did it fail miserably?For many different reasons...