We struggled for years to be able to bring all of these nat… - Christiana Figueres

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We struggled for years to be able to bring all of these nature-based issues together. There is no such thing as 'climate is over here in one bucket, close the lid, open another bucket and here is deforestation, forests and land use, close lid, open another bucket and here are the ocean issues'. They are all part of the same ecosystem upon which we depend.

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Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen (born on 7 August 1956) is a Costa Rican diplomat. She was executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change between 2010 and 2016.

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