UN climate boss Figueres says US has "historical responsibility" to compensate the world for Arab and African unrest and more to come due to climate

12/5/11, Figueres, ""I really think the … U.S. population needs to understand that this is not just their historical responsibility""...
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2/15/11, "Climate Change Drives Instability, U.N. Official [Figueres] Warns," NY Times, Green, John M. Broder

"The United Nations’ top climate change official said on Tuesday that food shortages and rising prices

• caused by climate disruptions

were among the chief contributors to the civil unrest coursing

• through North Africa and the Middle East.

In a speech to Spanish lawmakers and military leaders, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the United Nations climate office, said that

• climate change-driven drought,

falling crop yields and competition for water were fueling conflict throughout Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. She warned that unless nations took aggressive action to reduce

• emissions causing global warming

such conflicts would spread, toppling governments and

• driving up military spending around the world....

“In other words, it will threaten the basic foundation –

• the very stability on which humanity has built its existence.”

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12/5/11, "Top UN Climate Official Blasts U.S. Climate Policy: Americans Must Realize “This Is Their Future They’re Compromising”," Climate Progress, Stephen Lacey

In Durban, "Christiana Figueres, the top United Nations diplomat tasked with managing the international climate negotiations process" spoke with Climate Progress:

"“The U.S. is hamstrung. And I wonder how long it’s going to take the U.S. civil society … to realize that climate change is affecting them directly – it’s not just affecting somebody else. I really think the … U.S. population needs to understand that

• this is not just their historical responsibility,

but this is their future that they’re compromising.""...

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9/20/10, UN Climate Chief Figueres says Siemens should lobby governments for global warming cash. But Siemens has recently plead guilty to bribery and kickbacks:

Siemens plead guilty to massive bribery and kickbacks and paid a fine of at least $1.6 billion. (Perhaps like BP, Siemens thought by being associated with 'green' causes it would help them down the road.)

1/6/2009, Siemens bribery judgment a "wake up call for the "global energy industry."....

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• 12/15/2008, CNN/Money: "According to the SEC, the company also used bribes to develop mobile telephone networks in Bangladesh,

develop national identity cards in Argentina and medical devices in Vietnam, China and Russia."...

Siemens was in Iraq Oil for Food kickbacks too:

• "Siemens (SI) allegedly used kickback schemes to sell power stations and equipment to Iraq under the United Nations' Oil for Food Program. In all, the company engaged in more than $1.4 billion in bribes, earning more than $1.1 billion on its illegal transactions."...

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9/20/10, "Climate Deal May Need Company Lobbying, Figueres Says," Bloomberg, Jim Efstathiou Jr.

"Success at climate-change talks in Mexico may depend on companies such as Siemens AG and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. prodding governments into action,

• said Christiana Figueres, the United Nations climate chief.

Companies should lobby governments to recognize the business opportunities that arise from curbing global warming, Figueres today told a group that tracks carbon emissions by the world’s largest companies. Helping developing countries deliver more energy with fewer warming gases represents

• a “huge opportunity,” she said at a conference in New York."

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12/27/10, "Climate Science: the real reason we need to worry," Gordon Fulks, Oregonlive.com

"Among global warming advocates there is occasional candor about their real goals. Christiana Figueres, the new executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, said of the U.N. climate efforts:

• "This is the greatest societal and economic transformation that the world has ever seen."

Global warming is about politics, not legitimate science. Figueres calls herself a "global climate change analyst." Her formal education in climate science consists of

Al Gore's training program to promote "An Inconvenient Truth.""...

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Resume, CV, linked from her website. Involved in carbon marketing and its pricing.

C-Quest Capital

"Christiana Figueres and Mariana Awad Zaher Join C-Quest Capital

May 21, 2009

"C-Quest Capital (CQC) is pleased to announce the appointments of Christiana Figueres as Senior Advisor for Origination and CDM Risk Management and Mariana Awad Zaher as Advisor for Origination. "With Christiana Figueres working for C-Quest, two pioneers in the carbon market are joining forces," said Ken Newcombe, CEO, CQC.

CQC’s mission is to take principal positions as a carbon strategic investor in support of atmospheric cleansing of CO2 through biological sequestration and alternative energy sources, seeking wherever possible to enhance energy security, poverty alleviation and local, sustainable development. It aims to develop new products and employ sophisticated risk hedging strategies to support its carbon origination and asset management activities. CQC expects to be valued not only for the expertise it brings to each investment, but for maintaining the highest standards of integrity to ensure that its projects will make real contributions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

CQC has a substantial pool of proprietary capital and is actively trading in international carbon markets. It is taking equity positions in land use, renewable energy, and clean technology solutions for adapting to and mitigating climate change in the Kyoto, North American and Voluntary carbon markets."

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Until recently she was vice chair of carbon rating agency located on the Isle of Man.

"The Carbon Rating Agency (CRA) is an IDEACarbon company committed to establishing rigorous, comparable standards that will enable the

• global carbon markets to attract the levels of

• finance necessary for preventing climate change."...

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"Trained and authorized by Al Gore to deliver his presentation The Inconvenient Truth." from CF's CV, long form, page 5

via Tom Nelson