Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac talk about climate change at the Hay Festival

Christiana Figueres, anthropologist and Costa Rican economist, and Tom Rivett-Carnac, a political strategist aimed at studying climate change, dissect the reasons that led them to write

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, 2020) in a discussion of the Hay Festival .

The authors were key to the construction of the Paris Agreements in 2016, which establish measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the 195 signatory countries.