To handle the stress of negotiating deals on attempts to curb catastrophic global warming, Christiana Figueres, one of the main architects of the Paris Agreement, recommends meditation.

In 2015, as the head of the UN climate agency, the Costa Rican diplomat played a key role in shaping the deal in which the world agreed to work to limit global warming to well below 2C relative to pre-industrial levels, while striving for 1.5C.

Ten years later she was attending the COP30 summit in the Brazilian city of Belem, where negotiations are in full swing as countries attempt to reach a new consensus in the face of the climate emergency.

In an interview with AFP, Figueres highlighted the importance of "personal resilience" as humanity grapples with "unprecedented" circumstances.

With that in mind

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