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UN / CARICOM PLEDGING CONFERENCE
STORY: UN / CARICOM PLEDGING CONFERENCE
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
21 NOVEMBER 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It is time for long-term mechanisms that recognize vulnerabilities as the new normal. We can no longer rely on exceptions and ad hoc decisions. Countries that are disproportionally vulnerable to disasters and economic shocks must be able to access financing on terms and conditions that are appropriate to their specific needs and circumstances.”
4. Wide shot, delegations
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It used to be rare to see so many storms of such strength. But unfortunately, just as climate scientists predicted, this is becoming the new normal – even sooner than expected.”
6. Pan right, ECOSOC Chamber
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“During my visits to Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda, I saw a level of devastation that I have never witnessed before in my life. In Dominica, I saw a generation of development gains lost in a matter of hours. And Barbuda was rendered entirely uninhabitable.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gaston Alfonso Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda:
“Liability for the destruction of Barbuda and the dislocation of its residents resides those who continue to use fossil fuels excessively; those whose carbon emissions have unleashed the demons of climate change. Justice and fairness requires that the burden of building a more climate resilient community should not fall to the victims of climate change alone.”
10. Med shot, delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Roosevelt Skerrit, Prime Minister of Dominica:
“The science of climate change shows that the warming of the seas is leading to more rapidly intensifying and wetter storms. Consequently, no commercial insurance firm would offer the insurance we need. Insurance works best when risks are uncorrelated and random. We must now accept the fact that with climate change, this is guaranteed to change.”
12. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
08 OCTOBER 2017, SALYBIA, KALINAGO TERRITORY, DOMINICA
13. Various shots, aerial views showing damaged forests and buildings
14. Wide shot, helicopter landing
15. Wide shot, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit walking away from helicopter
16. Pan right, Guterres and Skerrit waving at the crowd
07 OCTOBER 2017, CODRINGTON, BARBUDA
17. Aerial shot, hurricane destruction
18. Med shot, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres looking out airplane window
19. Pan right, Guterres and Prime Minister Gaston Browne walking
20. Pan right, from destroyed office to Barbuda Council sign
21. Pan right, destroyed classroom
Speaking to a CARICOM-UN High-Level Pledging Conference, Secretary-General António Guterres today (21 Nov) said countries disproportionally vulnerable to disasters “must be able to access financing on terms and conditions that are appropriate to their specific needs and circumstances.”
Guterres told the meeting “it is time for long-term mechanisms that recognize vulnerabilities as the new normal,” adding that “we can no longer rely on exceptions and ad hoc decisions.”
The Secretary-General said “it used to be rare to see so many storms of such strength. But unfortunately, just as climate scientists predicted, this is becoming the new normal – even sooner than expected.”
He said that during his recent visits to Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda, he saw “a level of devastation that I have never witnessed before in my life.”
In Dominica, he said, “I saw a generation of development gains lost in a matter of hours,” while Barbuda, he added, “was rendered entirely uninhabitable.”
The Prime Minister of Barbuda, Gaston Alfonso Browne, told the meeting that “liability for the destruction of Barbuda and the dislocation of its residents resides those who continue to use fossil fuels excessively; those whose carbon emissions have unleashed the demons of climate change.”
He said that therefore “the burden of building a more climate resilient community should not fall to the victims of climate change alone.”
For his part, the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, said “the science of climate change shows that the warming of the seas is leading to more rapidly intensifying and wetter storms. Consequently, no commercial insurance firm would offer the insurance we need. Insurance works best when risks are uncorrelated and random. We must now accept the fact that with climate change, this is guaranteed to change.”
The Conference, 'Building a more Climate Resilient Community', is aimed at rebuilding the CARICOM Members devastated by Hurricanes Irma and Maria as the first climate resilient countries in the world and at helping the wider CARICOM Region improve its resilience.
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