UN / NDC CLIMATE CHANGE

A new United Nations report, “The Heat is On,” showcases how the world can take swift and meaningful action on climate change. It follows up on climate action plans known as “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), which are the backbone of the Paris Agreement on climate change. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:51
• Production Date: 18 September 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ACHIM STEINER; AMINA J. MOHAMMED
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UNDP
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• MAMS Id: 2450592
• Parent Id: 2450592
• Alternate Title: unifeed190918c

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STORY: UN / NDC CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 1:51
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 18 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Wide shot, United Nations flags

18 SEPTEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“When I look back on this Climate Action Summit, I want us to see it as a sling shot – that helped to change our common trajectory towards sustainability.; where we built trust between this generation of adults and the next – between our children and ourselves – that we are all working together to our fullest potential to tackle the climate emergency.”
4. Wide shot, podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations:
“The race is certainly on, and it is one that we can win. It doesn’t look much like it now but I hope that we can generate the beginning of turning and bending that curve toward the actions that we would like to see by 2020. Those targets must be met.”
6. Wide shot, conference room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“Much of what happens next week, much of what the world will be talking about whether on strike on First Avenue, in Central Park, in capitals around the world, in front of schools and buildings and mayors’ offices and here in the corridors of the United Nations Secretariat, is essentially about ambition. The Secretary-General has time and again said time is running out, and truly climate change as no other issue in human history has presented us with the need to act on a scale and at a speed that is simply without precedent.”
8. Wide shot, podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
“Ambition is the challenge of our generation. And it is an ambition that we can’t always project onto others or onto the abstract of governments or the private sector; it is actually part of everyone’s responsibility.”
10. Wide shot, conference room

Storyline

A new United Nations report, “The Heat is On,” showcases how the world can take swift and meaningful action on climate change. It follows up on climate action plans known as “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs), which are the backbone of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

At a launch event in New York, Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, said, “The race is certainly on, and it is one that we can win. It doesn’t look much like it now but I hope that we can generate the beginning of turning and bending that curve toward the actions that we would like to see by 2020.”

Achim Steiner, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), said, “Ambition is the challenge of our generation. And it is an ambition that we can’t always project onto others or onto the abstract of governments or the private sector; it is actually part of everyone’s responsibility.”

The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and UN Climate Change (UNFCCC) prepared the report to inform the upcoming Climate Action Summit and it is the most comprehensive review to date of intentions for 2020 and beyond.

The report warns that the greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, which are already at record highs, are set to keep rising. If the world doesn’t act decisively and quickly to reverse this trend, we run the risk of dangerously high temperatures and escalating costs.

The good news is that climate action has been speeding up in response to the climate crisis, with more and more governments, cities, and companies aligning their plans, policies and projections with the Paris Agreement on climate change—but much more effort is needed.

The Paris Agreement was a landmark decision reached in December 2015 when every country agreed to work together to limit average global temperature rise to “well below” 2℃ above what it was before the industrial revolution. Countries submitted national climate plans explaining how they would help contribute to achieving this goal.