Costa Rican Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, revealed to international media that she will soon publish a book in which she expresses what the world would be like in 2050, in whose content she points out, that the impacts of not combating climate change would be as disastrous as those of a world war.
(…) The degree of destruction, suffering and conflict will be as we have never had it, not even in world wars. Paradoxically, if we manage to decarbonize, the cities will be more liveable, there will be more food security, better access to electricity, greater forest cover, so it will be a world of more health, peace and efficiency,”
Figueres told El País newspaper.
The Costa Rican, daughter of former president José María Figueres Ferrer, told at what time of her life she began to see the circumstances of climate change differently.
In the 90s, Figueres took her two daughters to a reserve, to show them a beautiful species of golden frog, which, as a child, captivated her.
However, when asking about the animal, she received the unpleasant news that it had already died out.
I realized that if I, at thirty-something, had seen the disappearance of a species, I was giving my daughters a worse world,”
she recalled.
Christiana Figueres achieved the success of the Paris Agreement in 2015, which establishes preventive measures for the reduction in the emission of gases.
For her, the world still has time to do something considerable to avoid more damage to nature, and with it, favor the life of all the creatures that inhabit the Earth.