UN / PARIS AGREEMENT ENTRY INTO FORCE

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated the 15 States that deposited instruments of ratification of the Paris climate agreement, as he said “today marks the next step in our shared journey to meet the climate challenge.” UNIFEED-UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:34
• Production Date: 22 April 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: JOHN KERRY; SUSANA MALCORRA; BAN KI-MOON
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 1609357
• Parent Id: 1609357
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STORY: UN / PARIS AGREEMENT ENTRY INTO FORCE
TRT: 02:34
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 22 APRIL 2016, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the dais
3. Med shot, Palestinian delegation
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“In Paris last December, countries embraced the spirit of multilateralism and showed how to work together to meet a common threat. Today marks the next step in our shared journey to meet the climate challenge. I warmly congratulate the 15 parties that have deposited their instruments of ratification with the United Nations today.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Kerry, Secretary of State, United States:
“I am pleased to say that the United States absolutely intends to join this year. There is no question about it. In addition to that, I’ll just say it very quickly, Mr. Prime Minister, as I said earlier today, We have to do so much more than what the Paris Agreement has actually asked us to do.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Malcorra, Foreign Minister of Argentina:
“It is at the centre of the policies that this new administration in Argentina has set, not only to have poverty as a driver, but to have it as a driver in a sustainable way. So, we’ll do our very best to not only endorse and adhere to the agreement before the end of the year – it’s already in motion – but we are reshuffling our whole infrastructure in order to make it greener and to make it more sustainable so that we not only we live in a greener world but also we give more chances to our people.”
9. Med shot, Kerry
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of the Environment and Energy, Maldives:
“In many ways the hard work is still ahead of us and it begins by rapidly bringing the agreement into force. It is no accident that island nations have moved so expeditiously to ratify. As the communities of the frontline on the climate crisis, we are acutely aware that there’s no time to waste for us to cut greenhouse emissions and adapt to climate impacts that can no longer be avoided.”
11. Various shots, end of meeting

Storyline

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (22 Apr) congratulated the 15 States that deposited instruments of ratification of the Paris climate agreement, as he said “today marks the next step in our shared journey to meet the climate challenge.”

During the opening for signature of the Paris Agreement, 175 States signed the Agreement, and 15 States, mostly island nations, deposited instruments of ratification.

The Secretary of State of the United States, John Kerry, told the meeting that “the United States absolutely intends to join this year” and said “we have to do so much more than what the Paris Agreement has actually asked us to do.”

Ban’s former Chief of Staff and current Foreign Minister of Argentina, Susana Malcorra, said that Argentina also plans to “endorse and adhere to the agreement before the end of the year.” Malcorra explained that fighting poverty “in a sustainable way” was “at the centre” of Argentina’s new administration’s policies.

The Minister of the Environment and Energy of Maldives, Thoriq Ibrahim, one of the 15 countries that ratified the agreement, said it was “no accident that island nations have moved so expeditiously to ratify”

Ibrahim said that “as the communities of the frontline on the climate crisis, we are acutely aware that there’s no time to waste for us to cut greenhouse emissions and adapt to climate impacts that can no longer be avoided.”

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.