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UN / PASZTOR CLIMATE CHANGE
STORY: UN / PASZTOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
RECENT-NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
14 DECEMBER 2015, NEW YORK CITY
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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“Without the Secretary-General’s engagement either we would not have gotten a treaty or it would have been a different treaty. Paris delivered big. The centrepiece is the new agreement, importantly, countries came prepared to act. Hundred and 88 countries have now submitted their national climate plan.”
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“The agreement was long in the making. It was difficult to reach agreement, but as we have said, the stars were aligned and countries were able to negotiate and compromise on the agreement. In the end, no country objected or tried to block the adoption of the agreement. Many countries voiced regrets that the agreement wasn’t even more ambitious, but all accepted the need for compromise in order for the world to move forward to address climate change with one set of rules for the road.”
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“The agreement is universal. It applies to all countries and to the emissions of all countries. The Paris agreements main aim is to keep a global temperature rise this century well below two degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“The new agreement established the principle that future national plans would be no less ambitious than existing ones, which means that the climate action plans provide a firm floor and foundation for higher ambition. Finance remains a critical element. Parties agreed to define a clear roadmap on ratcheting up climate finance to 100 billion dollars by 2020 and will work to increase financing after 2020.”
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“It’s not perfect, and there are countries, there are groups of interest who man not, did not perhaps get everything that they wanted. What is really important in this agreement, and this is, I think we have to pay tribute to the French diplomatic service in large part for that because they did an absolutely fantastic job, is that at the end of the day, each of the countries, each of the main groups of countries who negotiated, were able to take home something, something important to them.”
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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change:
“This is a new era. It’s a new regime that is in place, and we have to make it work. And so, what really matters is, what are we going to do tomorrow morning?”
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Upon his return from Paris, the Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, Janos Pasztor, told reports today (14 Dec) that “Paris delivered big” and pointed out that without Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s engagement “either we would not have gotten a treaty or it would have been a different treaty.”
For the first time today, 195 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Sunday (13 Dec) pledged to curb emissions, strengthen resilience and joined to take common climate action. This followed two weeks of tireless negotiations at the United Nations climate change conference (COP21).
Pasztor said the agreement “was long in the making” and was “difficult to reach” but noted that “in the end, no country objected or tried to block” its adoption.
He stressed that “the agreement is universal” and “applies to all countries and to the emissions of all countries.”
He explained that “the Paris agreements main aim is to keep a global temperature rise this century well below two degrees Celsius and to drive efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.”
The agreement includes a 5 year review mechanism. Pasztor said it establishes that “future national plans would be no less ambitious than existing ones, which means that the climate action plans provide a firm floor and foundation for higher ambition.”
Finance, he said “remains a critical element,” pointing out that “parties agreed to define a clear roadmap on ratcheting up climate finance to 100 billion dollars by 2020 and will work to increase financing after 2020.”
The Assistant-Secretary-General said the agreement is “not perfect,” but “at the end of the day, each of the countries, each of the main groups of countries who negotiated, were able to take home something, something important to them.”
Pasztor said “this is a new era. It’s a new regime that is in place, and we have to make it work. And so, what really matters is, what are we going to do tomorrow morning?”
The Paris Agreement and the outcomes of COP21 cover all the crucial areas identified as essential for a landmark conclusion: mitigation – reducing emissions fast enough to achieve the temperature goal; a transparency system and global stock-take – accounting for climate action; adaptation – strengthening ability of countries to deal with climate impacts; loss and damage – strengthening ability to recover from climate impacts; and support – including finance, for nations to build clean, resilient futures.
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