Today, Figueres was asked by a reporter whether she thought a resolution was still possible.
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On Monday, UN climate chief Christiana Figueres opened the annual end-of-year international climate negotiations.
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Upon his arrival, the Secretary-General was briefed by the Executive Secretary of the Climate Change Convention, Christiana Figueres.
The talks are held together by Christiana Figueres, chair of the UN process.
Ms Figueres was speaking at a two-week session of UN negotiations in Bonn.
Jose Maria Figueres, a former president of Costa Rica, takes a similar view.
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Global warming is a threat to international stability says Christiana Figueres.
In London last week, Christiana Figueres was adamant that "business as usual" had to change if the poor were to eat and drink to a decent standard.
The COP President at Durban is a woman, Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane from South Africa and the Executive Secretary of the Convention is also a woman, Ms Christiana Figueres.
Ms Figueres, a Costa Rican diplomat and 15-year veteran of the UN climate process, takes over from the current UNFCCC executive secretary Yvo de Boer early next month.
The famed Braulio Carillo National Park, near Costa Rica's capital city, served as a backdrop for Clinton and President Jose Figueres to sign an agreement to share environmental technology.
According to Christiana Figueres, who will lead the talks on behalf of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it should help governments identify how ambitions can be raised.
Ms Figueres has chaired many working groups and committees within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and is regarded as having a deep understanding of its processes and its outstanding issues.
That, in a nutshell, is the challenge Ms Figueres has highlighted - and the challenge that will face those world leaders who have decided to go to Rio de Janeiro in 100 days' time.
The UN is the only venue capable of executing such an agreement, argued Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, during an afternoon press conference on the last day of negotiations in Bangkok.
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The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
He first received a briefing by Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, on the status of the negotiations, and then met with Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, President of the Conference of the Parties and South African Minister for International Relations and Cooperation.
Even as Ms Figueres was speaking in London, EU ministers were wrangling over the bloc's goals on climate change and renewable energy in Brussels - a meeting that ended without agreement on strengthening carbon-cutting ambition, essentially because just one of the 27 nations there, Poland, did not want to.
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