We're not victims of the past; we are creators and creators of the future. - Christiana Figueres

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We're not victims of the past; we are creators and creators of the future.

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About Christiana Figueres

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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Alternative Names: Karen Christiana Figueres Olsen
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We are totally on the way of smart design of cities. It is not science fiction. If you look for examples of any of this, it's all already underway.

it's never one individual. Far from it. It has to be a critical mass of people who bring their ingenuity, their innovation, their creative thinking and their solution development together. If we're going to do this, it has to be an everyone-in effort. So we went from something that was impossible in 2009 to something that was, OK, maybe possible. Over the years, we moved from possible to likely. And then, eventually, in 2015, to unstoppable. So that arc of possibility is what eventually led to the Paris Agreement.

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If you're angry, if you're despairing of whatever - what that is is energy. The only thing you have to do is harvest that energy and change the characteristic of it, and then you're contributing to the solution.

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