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GA / GUTERRES CLIMATE CHANGE
STORY: GA / GUTERRES CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 01:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
23 MARCH 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Trusteeship Council chamber
3. Wide shot, dais
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are dealing with scientific facts, not politics. And the facts are clear. Climate change is a direct threat in itself, and a multiplier of many other threats.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide continue to rise. They are now topping the critical threshold of 400 parts per million. Last year was once again the hottest on record. The past decade has also been the hottest on record. Sea ice is at a historic low; sea levels at a historic high. This trend is indisputable. There is no longer any doubt. Human activity is causing dangerous global warming.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Tackling climate change is a tremendous opportunity. That is why we see almost daily announcements being made by countries, ranging from renewable energy projects to climate-related laws, designed to keep temperature rise well below 2 degrees and as close to 1.5 degrees as possible. And that will only be achieved by massive action.”
9. Zoom out, delegates
10. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The world is moving towards a green economy. Governments and business increasingly understand that there is no trade-off between a healthy environment and a healthy economy. We can have both. Green business is good business.”
11. Wide shot, audience applause
Addressing a General Assembly High-Level action event aimed at invigorating political momentum on climate change, Secretary-General António Guterres today (23 Mar) underlined that human activity is causing dangerous global warming, and stressed that “we are dealing with scientific facts, not politics.”
The Secretary-General said that climate change is “a direct threat in itself, and a multiplier of many other threats,” including to peace, prosperity and to all of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Guterres said “atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide continue to rise. They are now topping the critical threshold of 400 parts per million. Last year was once again the hottest on record. The past decade has also been the hottest on record. Sea ice is at a historic low; sea levels at a historic high. This trend is indisputable.”
He also spotlighted how addressing climate change is a massive opportunity that we cannot afford to reject.
The Secretary-General said “we see almost daily announcements being made by countries, ranging from renewable energy projects to climate-related laws, designed to keep temperature rise well below 2 degrees and as close to 1.5 degrees as possible.”
He said “the world is moving towards a green economy. Governments and business increasingly understand that there is no trade-off between a healthy environment and a healthy economy. We can have both. Green business is good business.”
The Paris Agreement on climate change adopted in December 2015 is unique in its universality, with every single government having signed it. The pact entered force in less than a year. To date more than 130 Parties have ratified it, and the numbers are growing monthly.
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