In 2016, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Christiana Figueres, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Laurent Fabius, will receive the Munich Security Conference's "Ewald von Kleist Award". The two leaders will be honored for their role in negotiating the new global climate agreement, which was adopted in Paris in December 2015.

Read press release.

Photo credit: COP Paris (Flickr)