Christiana Figueres has to persuade 194 countries to sign a deal in 2015 that will stop global warming. She tells us how she's going to change the world
You're working to create an international climate change agreement. Where do the negotiations stand?
We're on a straight path toward an agreement in Paris in December 2015. In May 2015 the draft agreement needs to go out to every government. This is not a small contract. This really is the basis for a global transformation the likes of which the world has never seen. But at the same time we have to keep our focus on 2014 as the year when most of the work needs to be done, and when we build people's confidence that we can move to a low-carbon economy.
What has changed since the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen in 2009?
I think the fundamental problem we had in ...
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