Next UN climate head will need an eye for detail
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UNFCCC, will be stepping down later this year. (UNFCCC)
The resignation last month of Christiana Figueres, the UN’s chief climate diplomat, draws a line under the success of December’s agreement at the COP21 climate summit and marks a shift away from political negotiations and toward more practical matters.
Figueres will step down from her post as executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC ) in June, and the search for her successor has already begun.