Christiana Figueres Optimistic For Ultimate Global Climate Deal
Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UN Climate Secretariat stopped by the Living on Earth studios on her way from the University of Massachusetts Boston to the next phase of international climate negotiations that began in Bonn, Germany on April 29. The Bonn session is one of many leading up to a final meeting in Paris, France in 2015 when nations have pledged to come together on a binding deal to expand the Kyoto Protocol to include all major emitters of global warming gases. Figueres spoke with Living on Earth's Steve Curwood.

Fred Krupp Reacts to President Obama's Inaugural Climate Promise
Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, discusses with Steve Curwood the pledge by President Obama to make climate change a main focus of the second term of his presidency.

Nobel Prize Winner Wangari Maathai Remembered
After a year long battle with cancer, Wangari Maathai, the first environmental activist to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died of cancer on September 25 in Nairobi, Kenya. During a remarkable life she was a scientist and environmentalist; in later years she was elected to the Kenyan Parliament and served as a cabinet minister. Shortly after Dr. Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, Living on Earth's Ingrid Lobet traveled to Kenya to produce a documentary about the founder of the Green Belt Movement. Click to listen and see more.