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Twitter chats with Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres actively uses Twitter to reach out to and interact with
climate change stakeholders and the general public, and has engaged in a number of live Twitter chats
which have resulted in several million page impressions. See list of previous chats below. As of 1
March 2013, she has tweeted more than 1.200 times. Her Twitter ID is @CFigueres.
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Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres on innovative climate finance
27
May 2013
On 27 May, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres will host a live Twitter chat to discuss the
role of innovative finance in responding to climate change. The live chat is linked to the call
for applications for Momentum for Change: Financing for Climate-friendly Investment in
partnership with the World Economic Forum. The chat will be joined by Dominic Waughray, senior
director of the WEF's Environmental Initiatives.
View live UNFCCC page
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Christiana Figueres chats about addressing climate change while improving the lives of
the urban poor
21 May 2013
On 21 May, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres hosted a chat on Twitter about the role of
the Urban Poor in climate change action, together with ICLEI's Yunus Arikan. The chat
coincided with the call for applications for "Momentum for Change: Urban Poor"
initiative. View
Storify version of the chat
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Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres and the GGCA on the COP 18 Gender
Decision
14 May 2013
On 14 May, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres engaged on Twitter on the COP 18 Gender
Decision. The live Twitter chat was hosted by the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GGCA) and focused on
the key objectives of the decision.
View
Storify version of the chat.
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Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres on innovative climate finance
12
April 2013
Bonn, Germany
On 12 April, Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres hosted a live Twitter chat to discuss the
role of innovative finance in responding to climate change. The chat coincided with the call
for applications for "Momentum for Change: Financing for Climate-friendly
Investment", in partnership with the World Economic Forum.
View live UNFCCC page
View
Storify version of the chat
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Twitter chat with the UN's top climate change official on 8 March, International
Women's Day
8 March 2013
Bonn, Germany
On 8 March, International Women's Day, Christiana Figueres hosted a Twitter chat to talk
about how women can build momentum for stronger climate action. You can read the storified
version of the chat here.
Twitter chat page
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Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres on "How can the world achieve the right
momentum for a global climate framework"
14 February 2013
In a live chat hosted by The Climate Group, Christiana Figueres asked "How can the world
achieve the right momentum for a global climate framework in 2015?" and responded to
questions.
More information
View summary of the event
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Twitter chat with Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity Winners
21
November 2012
Bonn, Germany
The public had the chance to chat with representatives from three of the UNFCCC Momentum for
Change Lighthouse Activities during a Twitter chat. The three activities were: Solar Sister, a
women-led renewable energy sales force; EELA, an energy efficient brick making activity in
Peru; and Guangzhou BRTS, a game changing public transport system.
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Twitter chat with Momentum for Change Lighthouse Activity winners
14
November 2012
Bonn, Germany
Twitter followers were able to find out about "Lighthouse Activities" selected by the
UNFCCC Momentum for Change initiative, and put questions to initiative representatives.The
projects have a focus on the urban poor, and were also presented at COP18 in Doha.
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Twitter chat with Christiana Figueres about the role of business and public-private
partnerships in fighting climate change on 22 November
On 22 November, Christiana
Figueres chatted on Twitter about the role of public-private partnerships in responding to
cimate change.
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Women invited to Tweet with UN's top climate change official on responding to
climate change
On 24 October 2011, Christiana Figueres engaged with women around
the world on responding to climate change. Follow the @CFigueres account to see all the
questions from other users and answers to those questions.
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Young people invited to engage on Twitter with the UN's top climate change
official
On 17 October 2011, Christiana Figueres engaged with young people around
the world who are concerned about climate change and eager to do their bit to make a
difference. Via the Twitter account @CFigueres, she asked young people what they were doing to
fight climate change and responded to their questions. Hashtag: #unfcccyouth.
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UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figures now on Twitter
New Delhi,
India
7 February 2011
On 7 February 2011, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres began sending personal
messages via her new Twitter account, @CFigueres. She sent first tweets from Pakistan, where she visited the homeless
resulting from the devastating floods of 2010. With such disasters set to become more frequent
and intense due to climate change, she drew attention to the need for rebuilding in Pakistan to
be climate-smart.
Followers of the UN climate change process can also receive updates on the latest UNFCCC
documents by following the UNFCCC's @UN_ClimateTalks Twitter account.
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