GENEVA / WMO GLOBAL HEAT

Ahead of next week’s high-level event on the Paris Agreement, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) urged world leaders to urgently ratify and implement it, adding that the “planet is really sending distress signals and we need to act, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically and quickly.” UNTV CH / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:29
• Production Date: 16 September 2016
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION - WMO
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 1708736
• Parent Id: 1708736
• Alternate Title: unifeed160916b

Description

STORY: GENEVA / WMO GLOBAL HEAT
TRT: 2:29
SOURCE: UNTV CH / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 SEPTEMBER 2016 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

Shotlist

1. Exterior, Palais des Nations
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“WMO’s message to world leaders is that the need to ratify and even more important the need to implement the Paris agreement is now more urgent than ever before. Our planet is really sending distress signals and we need to act, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically and quickly.”
4. Wide shot, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“We have witnessed a prolonged period of extraordinary heat which is set to become the new norm, so the abnormal is no longer the normal. Abnormal is set to become the norm. In addition to the record temperatures we are seeing again record levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and we are seeing very very very high sea temperatures which have contributed to one of the worst coral bleaching episodes on record.”
6. Med shot, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“August was the hottest August on record and it tied with July according to NASA as the hottest absolute month ever ever ever ever measured. The year to date has broken all temperature records and even though we are only in September, we feel fairly confident to say that 2016 is on course to be the hottest year on record”.
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Clare Nullis, Spokesperson, World Meteorological Organisation (WMO):
“The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that it is 95 percent certain that man, humankind, is responsible for global warming”.

FILE - 27 MARCH 2014, ILULISSAT, GREENLAND (DENMARK)

10. Various shots, ice fjord

FILE - 25 MARCH 2014, KANGERLUSSUAQ, GREENLAND

11. Various shots, areal landscape and icebergs

FILE – UNICEF – FEBRUARY 2008, CHELYABINSK, RUSSIA

12. Close up, smoking chimneys
13. Zoom in, power plant
14. Wide shot, train in front of industrial landscape
15. Close up, exhaust from the car
16. Wide shot, industrial pollution

Storyline

Ahead of next week’s high-level event on the Paris Agreement, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) urged world leaders to urgently ratify and implement it, adding that the “planet is really sending distress signals and we need to act, we need to cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically and quickly.”

The Paris Agreement will enter into force 30 days after the date on when at least 55 countries, accounting for 55 percent of the total global greenhouse gas emissions, have deposited their instruments of ratification or acceptance with the Secretary-General. The high-level event will provide an opportunity for other countries to publicly commit to joining the Paris Agreement before the end of 2016.

WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva today (15 Sep) that “we have witnessed a prolonged period of extraordinary heat which is set to become the new norm, so the abnormal is no longer the normal. Abnormal is set to become the norm.”

In addition to the record temperatures, she said “we are seeing again record levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and we are seeing very very very high sea temperatures which have contributed to one of the worst coral bleaching episodes on record.”

Nullis pointed out that another record has been broken this year. She said “August was the hottest August on record and it tied with July according to NASA as the hottest absolute month ever measured. The year to date has broken all temperature records and even though we are only in September, we feel fairly confident to say that 2016 is on course to be the hottest year on record.”

One gauge of global warming is the extent of Arctic sea ice melt. The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically covers 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. According to WMO, the footprint is indisputable. Nullis said “the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that it is 95 percent certain that men, humankind, is responsible for global warming.”