The Pax Natura International Foundation delivered the Pax Natura 2019 Prize to Christina Figueres Olsen on Tuesday afternoon. She is a Costa Rican leader recognized worldwide for her struggle on issues related to climate change.

Pax Natura is a 20 year old foundation which actively promotes "Peace with Nature" through health, ecological and social welfare. It is an organization with members in the U.S.A. and Costa Rica.



The award was created in 1998 and is presented annually to distinguished members of the international community whose life’s work exemplifies the highest ideals of: Peace with Nature.


Christiana Figueres Olsen is a Costa Rican diplomat with 35 years of experience in high level national and international policy and multilateral negotiations.



Figueres held the position of Executive Secretary of the Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2010-2016.



She led conferences in Cancun (2010), Durban (2011), (Doha) 2012, Warsaw (2013) and Lima (2014), and was part of the historic Paris Agreement 2015 which was approved by 195 countries.



The agreement aims to fight against the effects of climate change, defined as the important changes that the planet has been suffering for several decades and that are the result of emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) that cause global warming.



According to Christiana Figueres, "for the first time in the history of the planet, it is not nature, nor the natural cycle that is determining conditions, but for the first time, we human beings.” She went on to say that it is our responsibility to come to terms with nature, to maintain the natural world and accept our responsibility to improve the planet. She added that we have to decide under what conditions the future generations will live.