Host May Boeve welcomes world authority on global climate change, Christiana Figueres.
In this special deep-dive, May Boeve sits down with Christiana Figueres to unpack one of the most important movement wins of our time: the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Starting in the shadow of the Copenhagen failure, Christiana walks through how she rebuilt a demoralized system, beginning with her own mindset, and then inviting everyone else into a shared, winnable vision!
Along the way, she reveals the often invisible mechanics of progress: deep listening as a leadership practice, the power of “concentric circles” strategy, the Lioness network that helped women support each other and negotiate better, and why Paris had to be an incentivizing agreement rather than a punitive one.
How We Build This is created and hosted by May Boeve
Producer: Phil Surkis
Theme music: ‘Within’, composed by Ruthie Dineen, and performed by Negative Press Project.
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