Christiana Figueres, head of the United Nation's climate change secretariat, announced Feb. 19 that she will step down at the end of her term in July, ending a six-year run that started in the wake of the collapsed 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen and culminated with the adoption of the landmark Paris Agreement last December. Figueres's announcement came days after Laurent Fabius, president of the 21st Conference of the Parties summit that produced the Paris Agreement, stepped down from that role as part of a government shake-up. The back-to-back departures will leave the multilateral climate negotiation process without its two most recognizable faces as it starts to build toward the ratification and implementation of the Paris Agreement, the world's first universal agreement to combat climate change.
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