Since the year began, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres has been a tireless campaigner for climate action. In the last few months, she’s traveled to the Middle East, Asia, small and large islands across the Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and of course Europe - making the case that the coming months and years leading up to the planned 2015 global climate deal are really important. She even passed through my home town of San Francisco where she gave not one, but three major talks (here’s one of them).
This coming week, however, Christiana and many other key players in that 2015 deal will be in Bonn for the first major round of negotiations this year. To set expectations, or at least help set the tone, the UNFCCC published it’s latest newsletter prior to talks kicking off. Christiana, as you might imagine, plays a staring role. Check out her video curtain raiser, previewing the Bonn Climate Change Conference:
If Christiana’s video hasn’t sated your interest:
- Be sure to check out this press conference hosted by CAN International and the Global Call for Climate Action.
- Here’s the official UNFCCC press conference.
- You might also dip your toes into this article by Chairs of this week’s negotiations.
And of course, stay tuned to the Adopt a Negotiator website - veteran tracker Sébastien Duyck will be blogging from inside the conference halls, and I’ll be supporting remotely.
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About the author
Joshua Wiese is Adopt a Negotiator’s Project Director. He is based in San Francisco, where he spends most of his time thinking about how to use technology to make the world a better place.
