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PARIS / COP21 OPENING
STORY: PARIS / COP 21 OPENING
TRT: 02:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2015, PARIS, FRANCE
1. Wide shot, Plenary
2. Pan left, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walking to the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“You are here today to write the script for a new future. A future of hope and promise, of increased prosperity, security and dignity for all.”
4. Med shot, delegates
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“More than 150 world leaders have come to Paris and are here together in one place at the same time , with one purpose. We have never faced such a test. A political momentum like this may not come again. But neither have we encountered such great opportunity at this time.”
6. Med shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Bold climate action is in the national interest of every single country represented at this conference.”
8. Pan right, audience applause
9. Wide shot, US President Barack Obama at the podium
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of the United States:
“I come here personally as the leader of the world’s greatest economy and the second largest emitter to say that the United Stats of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”
11. Pan left, audience applause
12. SOUNDBITE (French) François Hollande, President of France:
“Our greatest challenge is to move from globalization based on competition to a model based on cooperation. It will be more profitable to protect than to destroy. We should think of the world as a unique space and to establish an equality pact between north and south and between man and nature.”
13. Zoom out family portrait
Speaking at the opening of the United Nations climate change conference (COP21) which seeks to reach a new universal agreement to protect people and planet, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said “a political momentum like this may not come again.”
Ban told around 150 world leaders attending the kick-off of the much-anticipated conference in Paris, France, “you are here today to write the script for a new future,”
“We have never faced such a test,” he continued. “But neither have we encountered such great opportunity.”
The Secretary-General said “bold climate action is in the national interest of every single country represented at this conference.”
Also addressing the meeting, United States President Barack Obama accepted his nation’s role in generating climate change.
Obama said, “I come here personally as the leader of the world’s greatest economy and the second largest emitter to say that the United Stats of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”
The President of France, François Hollande, for his part said “our greatest challenge is to move from globalization based on competition to a model based on cooperation.”
Hollande said “we should think of the world as a unique space and to establish an equality pact between north and south and between man and nature.”
Ahead of COP21, countries submitted voluntary climate action plans to UNFCCC, the UN entity organizing the conference. These are formally called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, or INDCs, and will form the basis of the agreement expected to be reached in two weeks.
More than 180 countries have now submitted their national climate plans which cover close to 100 per cent of global emissions.
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