Extreme weather is 'silver lining' for climate action: Christiana Figueres
Source(s):
Guardian, the (UK)
UN climate chief says flooding and heatwaves have raised the issue of climate change to the highest political level.
'I hope that we don't need too many more Sandys or Haiyans or fires in Australia or floods in the UK to wake us up. My sense is there is already much momentum. We have 66 governments that have climate legislation, we have a total of 500 laws around the world on climate, whereas before Copenhagen we only had 47,' Christiana Figueres told The Guardian.