“I do not accept that the world is going to hell. Not under our watch.' Co-founder of Global Optimism CFigueres talks what climate change and COVID-19 have in common — and how to make a difference. InStyleBadassWomen
“I do not accept that the world is going to hell,” says Christiana Figueres, co-founder of, an organization dedicated to social and environmental change. “Not under our watch.” This tenacious attitude served the Costa Rican diplomat well in her previous post as the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. There, she was responsible for overseeing the 2015 Paris Agreement, which united 195 countries in a global fight to lower emissions and stabilize the planet.
“Five years before that agreement, nobody, including me, had a blessed idea of how it was going to work,” Figueres says. “We tend to think that individuals make a difference, and they do.
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