UN / COP 21 ROYAL WRAP

French environment minister Segolene Royal said she expects up to 100 signatures for the upcoming 22 April signing ceremony for the Paris agreement, considered a step towards formal ratification. UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:02
• Production Date: 11 March 2016
• Asset Language: French
• Personal Subject: BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 1581264
• Parent Id: 1581264
• Alternate Title: unifeed160311d

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STORY: UN / COP 21 ROYALWRAP
TRT: 02:02
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV/ RECENT
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 11 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT-

1.Wide shot, UN headquarters

11 MARCH 2016, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Royal entering room, meeting with Ban, shaking hands
3. Various shots, Ban and Royal at meeting
4. Med shot, Royal walking to podium outside Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Segolene Royal, French environment minister, president of COP 21:
“I hope we will have between 80 to 100 signatures which would already be a formidable success. Either the heads of states or governments will come or they will delegate to their representatives at the United Nations the authority to sign it. And it my job as a President of COP to mobilize and achieve that we have those 80 to 100 signatures. And if we have more, that will be something really extraordinary. There shouldn’t be less and we should focus on an ambitious objective.”
6. Wide shot, Royal at podium
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Segolene Royal, French environment minister, president of COP 21:
“We need engagement of the United States of America. Because if we want to stay under 2 degrees or even go under 1.5 degrees of global warming we absolutely need engagement of the USA and I am confident that President Obama and his administration will assure that the Paris accord will be applied.” (zoom out, walks away)

Storyline

French environment minister Segolene Royal said she expects up to 100 signatures for the upcoming 22 April signing ceremony for the Paris agreement, considered a step towards formal ratification.

Speaking to reporters today (11 Mar) outside the Security Council she said it was her job as President of COP to “mobilize and achieve” that they have 80 to 100 signatures adding that “if we have more, that will be something really extraordinary.”

She also said that the agreement needed the “engagement” of the US if they want to stay under 2 degrees of global warming, “or even go under 1.5 degrees of global warming we absolutely need engagement of the USA and I am confident that President Obama and his administration will assure that the Paris accord will be applied.”

Reports say Washington would sign the Paris agreement regardless of the decision by the recent Supreme Court decision to stop the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan.