Figueres has done 'excellent' job, but steps down in July

Christina Figueres - she has headed UN
 climate negotiations for six years, but
she will be stepping down from the role in July.

Critics say the emissions deal Christiana Figueres helped reach in December was "watered down." Figueres, a diplomat from Costa Rica who has headed UN climate negotiations for six years, will leave her position in July.

"Christiana Figueres had a very unenviable position, and she's done an excellent job in holding the whole edifice together," Kevin Anderson, the deputy director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, told DW following the senior diplomat's decision last week not to seek a new term.

Figueres, a diplomat from Costa Rica who heads the Bonn-based UN secretariat for the Framework Convention on Climate, will leave her position in July after six years.

("It's very unlikely that her replacement will really grapple with the scale of the increasing void between the rhetoric we hear on climate change and the scale of action that we now need," according to the deputy director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research, Kevin Anderson.)

 

Read the DW story - “UN climate boss had 'unenviable job' sealing Paris deal.”