Christiana Figueres's Recent LinkedIn Posts

I am outraged. How much pointless loss and destruction do we need to see before we break our oil addiction cycle? Every oil crisis is not a surprise, it's a consequence - and with each subsequent turn of the wheel, the human and economic prices being paid increase. The costs aren't abstract, they're measured in li…

It is understandable to feel that there are so many challenges in today’s world that we don’t know where to start. Choose where you can make a difference, where you can influence a decision, where you can bring kindness, to yourself and to someone else – who really needs it in that moment? If it is a moment of hat…

Each Earthshot Prize host city brings together innovators, leaders and changemakers driving climate leadership at scale. The journey continues with #EarthshotMumbai

If climate change is the shark, water is the teeth. It's a vivid way of putting it (thanks Paul Dickinson 🙏) but it captures something important that global climate negotiations don't. Despite being the thread connecting all three UNFCCC environmental conventions (climate, biodiversity, desertification), water doe…

Stop the 'hair shirting' and flip the framing! When we talk about the behaviour change needed for climate action it is all too often assumed it’s a sacrifice, like embracing a kind of modern-day hair-shirt mentality in the name of doing the right thing. While there can be trade-offs, that narrative misses the bigge…

Even if Trump's assertion that climate change is a hoax were true - the case for renewable energy stands on its own: → Security. Nations dependent on imported fossil fuels hand leverage to regimes they'd rather not. Domestic renewables change that equation entirely. → Growth. Clean energy isn't just green - it's a…