Podcast Episodes featuring Christiana Figueres

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060 - The Future We Choose (Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac)

The Think Tank Podcast - March 10, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 207 ratings
Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac (authors of The Future We Choose and lead negotiators for the UN the during the Paris Agreement) join Tank Sinatra this week and discuss the release of their book and how it goes into detail about what happens if we do something about climate ch...

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Bloomberg’s foreign policy and the global economy gets the coronavirus

Pod Save the World - February 19, 2020 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 22.1K ratings
Mike Bloomberg’s foreign policy record and platform. How some 2020 candidates failed a foreign policy quiz. The humanitarian crisis in northwest Syria. The latest on the coronavirus and how Senator Tom Cotton is spreading disinformation. The Koch brothers funding foreign policy think tanks…for g...

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How we can turn the tide on climate | Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson

TED Talks Daily - December 21, 2019 11:00 ★★★★ - 9.8K ratings
Witness the unveiling of Countdown, a major global campaign to cut greenhouse gas emissions. TED has partnered with scientists, policy makers, organizations, activists and more to create an initiative that everyone in the world can be part of. Check out http://countdown.ted.com to learn ...

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Christiana Figueres on how we can solve the climate crisis

The TED Interview - December 11, 2019 05:05 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 2K ratings
In 2015, Christiana Figueres brokered the historic Paris Agreement to combat climate change. She gives an inside look at the negotiations that led to a commitment from 195 countries to work toward a low carbon future and discusses her current work on COUNTDOWN, an ambitious new initiati...

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Christiana Figueres: A Conversation on Mindfulness and Climate

Climate One - October 05, 2018 17:57 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
Former UN climate negotiator Christiana Figueres credits Buddhist teachings both for helping her through a personal crisis, and for providing a source of inner strength that sustained her through negotiations at the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, and helped contribute to its success. “I realized my c...

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The Road to Paris: Christiana Figueres and William Reilly

Climate One - December 04, 2015 17:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
Past conferences have failed to reach consensus on addressing climate change. Can the Paris summit produce a lasting, effective and equitable solution? Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change William K. Reilly, Senior Advisor, TPG Capital...

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The Road to Paris: Christiana Figueres and William Reilly

Climate One - July 03, 2015 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
Past conferences have failed to reach consensus on addressing climate change. Can the Paris summit produce a lasting, effective and equitable solution? Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change William K. Reilly, Senior Advisor, TPG Capital Th...

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Global Meltdown: Christiana Figueres (4/17/13)

Climate One - April 22, 2013 18:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 502 ratings
These are tough days for international efforts to put a meaningful price on carbon pollution. It's a tough sell, and many clean-energy advocates say a global deal once dreamed about at Copenhagen will never happen. We have to think about “what have we learned and what is different” since Copenhag...