Christiana Figueres

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Christiana Figueres (2018)

Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born August 7, 1956 in San José ) is a Costa Rican politician. From July 1, 2010 to May 2016, she was Secretary General of the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Figueres' father, José Figueres Ferrer , was President of Costa Rica three times from the 1940s to the 1970s .

Life

Figueres began her career at the Costa Rican embassy in Bonn as an ambassador to the embassy , where she worked from 1982 to 1985. She received the Grand Cross of the Federal Order of Merit for her commitment to realigning cooperation and development aid between Germany and Costa Rica . In 1987 she returned to Costa Rica, where she became Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Planning. In 1988 she became chief of staff in the Ministry of Agriculture.

After a professional break, she became director of the Technical Secretariat of the Renewable Energy in the Americas (REIA) in 1994, where she campaigned for the promotion of renewable energies and the overcoming of hurdles in their use. In 1995 she was appointed director of the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA), which promotes the participation of Latin American countries in the Framework Convention on Climate Change. She has represented Costa Rica in international climate negotiations since 1995.

After the resignation of the General Secretary of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Yvo de Boer, on July 1, 2010, Figueres succeeded him. She held this office until July 2016; Patricia Espinosa was appointed her successor on July 18, 2016 .

On February 13, 2016, she was awarded the Ewald-von-Kleist Prize and on November 12, 2017, the CARE Millennium Prize. In 2019 she received the Dan David Prize .

The Time magazine she led in 2019 to the article "Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change" as one of "15 women who lead the fight against climate change" on.

Figueres was one of several candidates to succeed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .

Web links

Commons : Christiana Figueres  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patricia Espinosa: Mexican becomes head of the UN climate secretariat. Spiegel Online, May 19, 2016, accessed on the same day
  2. ↑ http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2017-11/42214792-care-millenniumspreis-an-christiana-figueres-ehemalige-generalsekretaerin-des-un-klimasekretariats-fuer-ihren- Einsatz-geehre- 007.htm
  3. ↑ Meet 15 Women Leading the Fight Against Climate Change. Time, September 12, 2019, accessed January 1, 2020 .
  4. ^ Fiona Harvey: Christiana Figueres nominated for post of UN secretary general . In: The Guardian . July 7, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Figueres, Christiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Figueres Olsen, Karen Christiana (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican politician
DATE OF BIRTH 7th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose