UN / TRUDEAU

After adding his signature to what he called an “historical agreement” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that over the next five year Canada “will invest nearly 3 billion dollars to address climate change and air pollution.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:00
• Production Date: 22 April 2016
• Asset Language: English; French
• Personal Subject: JUSTIN TRUDEAU
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• Geographic Subject: CANADA
• MAMS Id: 1609237
• Parent Id: 1609237
• Alternate Title: unifeed160422e

Description

STORY: UN / TRUDEAU
TRT: 02:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, river patrols
3. Wide shot, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the podium
4. SOUNDBITE (French) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada:
“This morning Canada added its signature to a historical agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change. With that gesture, we have affirmed our engagement. Canada continues working towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions and to do our part to keep global temperature rise under the 2 degrees Celsius bar and increase our efforts to cap temperature rise at1.5 degrees.”
5. Wide shot, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada:
“Over the next five year we will invest nearly 3 billion dollars to address climate change and air pollution. But these efforts and investments are just the beginning. Now we want to hear from Canadians. After all we all have a stake in our shared climate future. So, to coincide with this historic day, we have launched a new online portal at Canada.ca/climateaction. Canadians can go there to share their ideas on how to address climate change and promote clean growth.”
7. Wide shot, reporters
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada:
“Climate change is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity to build a stronger cleaner economy. Let’s keep working together and never lose sight of that goal. Our children, and our children’s children are counting on us to get this right, and we will not let them down.”
9. Med shot, reporters
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister, Canada:
“The only way to build a strong economy for the future is to make sure we are living up to our environmental responsibilities. There is no longer a choice to be made between what’s good for the environment and what is good for the economy. They need to go together.”
11. Wide shot, Trudeau at the podium

Storyline

After adding his signature to what he called an “historical agreement” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters today (22 Apr) that Canada will continue working towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperature rise 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Trudeau announced that over the next five year Canada “will invest nearly 3 billion dollars to address climate change and air pollution.” He also announced the launch of a new online portal where Canadians can go “to share their ideas on how to address climate change and promote clean growth.”

The Prime Minister said “climate change is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity to build a stronger cleaner economy.”

He said “the only way to build a strong economy for the future is to make sure we are living up to our environmental responsibilities. There is no longer a choice to be made between what’s good for the environment and what is good for the economy. They need to go together.”

The Paris Agreement was adopted by all 196 Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris on 12 December 2015. In the Agreement, all countries agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and to strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius.