PARIS / COP 21 ARRIVALS

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President François Hollande welcomed world leaders early this morning for the first day of the historic COP21 conference in Paris.UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:31
• Production Date: 30 November 2015
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON; BARACK OBAMA; FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 1521562
• Parent Id: 1521294
• Alternate Title: unifeed151130a

Description

STORY: PARIS / COP 21 ARRIVALS
TRT: 02:32
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2015, PARIS FRANCE

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, French and UN flags
2. Pan right, Hollande and Ban walking together
3. Wide shot, photographers
4. Zoom out, Ban, Hollande and Fabious posing for photo
5. Wide shot, two french policemen
6. Pan left, Chinese President Xi Jinping being greeted by Hollande
7. Pan left, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet greeted by Hollande and Ban
8. Pan left, US President Barack Obama’s arrival
9. Pan left, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ arrival
10. Med shot, Prince Charles, Fabious and Royal
11. Pan left, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto arrives
12. Pan left, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff arrives
13. Med shot, Royal with Bolivian President Evo Morales
14. Various shots, Ban shaking hands with Egyptian President el-Sisi
15. Various shots, UN and Egyptian delegations meeting

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President François Hollande welcomed world leaders early this morning for the first day of the historic COP21 conference in Paris.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the UN entity organizing the conference – has already received some 180 voluntary climate action plans from countries, and over 150 heads of state are in attendance.

Many countries have also indicated they would like to see a mechanism in the agreement that will allow them to ramp up their ambition to reach the goal of limiting a global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

According to experts, a temperature rise beyond this level will cause irreversible damage to the planet by exacerbating droughts, floods, food and water shortages, affecting the most vulnerable countries first.

Despite the scientific community acknowledging that the national pledges submitted so far will not limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius, Ban has underscored that a successful outcome at COP21 would allow the world to ultimately achieve this target.