вЂњFor heads of state, it is actually a much better use of their strategic thinking,вЂќ Figueres said.Д«efore leaving Rome for Glasgow on Sunday, U.S. staff members up with evening dance sessions after most people left. That works better because the leaders can set the tone and have more negotiating space to вЂњchart the courseвЂќ instead of getting bogged down in details looming at the end, said Figueres, who in Paris also kept the energy of U.N. One of the big changes was having the conference start with more than 100 heads of state attending for two days instead of leaders coming in at the end of the two-week annual meeting.

In fact, she now runs a nonprofit organization called Global Optimism.ДЄfter the Copenhagen failure, FigueresвЂ™ office spent two years dissecting what went wrong and wrote a 300-page autopsy. Knowing what details worked to make the historic Paris 2015 agreement and the individuals still working on the issue makes her optimistic, Figueres said. ThereвЂ™s actually been too much progress and too much has advanced for something like that.вЂќДЇigueres called the climate statements that came out of the two-day Group of 20 summit in Rome that ended Sunday вЂњlackluster.вЂќ Still she said she looks at вЂњwhere we are today, which is sizably much better than what we were in Paris six years ago.вЂќ So I do not celebrate it, but I think that we have a responsibility to be honest and to really understand the complexity of what weвЂ™re doing here.вЂќДЄsked if that means the negotiations will end in failure, like the U.N.вЂ™s 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen, she said: вЂњItвЂ™s not going to happen here.

вЂњFrom a political perspective, it is a disappointment for many, and I understand. вЂњFrom a science perspective, weвЂ™re still in time, even if we do it in two years,вЂќ Figueres said in a late Sunday sit-down interview at the negotiations site. Those goals probably wonвЂ™t be hit for another two years, but thatвЂ™s OK, Figueres told The Associated Press.

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