Top UN Climate Change Executive, Christiana Figueres, Wins Joan Bavaria Sustainability Award

Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has been awarded the Joan Bavaria Award for Building Sustainability into the Capital Markets.  The announcement was made Thursday at the Ceres Conference 2016 at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

The award is given annually by the nonprofit group Ceres and Trillium Asset Management to honor an inspiring global leader working to move capital markets toward a system that balances economic prosperity with social and environmental concerns.

The groups selected Figueres for her leadership in bringing together governments, corporations, investors, communities of faith and nonprofit groups to achieve a historic global climate change agreement, forged by 195 countries, in Paris.  Figueres has been credited with forging a remarkable, new brand of collaborative diplomacy that enabled the agreement, which was signed by 175 countries April 22.

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