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UN / US PARIS AGREEMENT REAX
STORY: UN / US PARIS AGREEMENT REAX
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
05 NOVEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Stephane Dujarric at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“The US official notification of its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement had been announced, and therefore was expected. Our determination to move forward on the implementation of the Paris Agreement remains unchanged. We continue to encourage member states to actively engage ahead of COP25 in Madrid to raise ambition, to tackle and defeat climate change.”
4. Wide shot, Dujarric at the podium
FILE – 30 NOVEMBER 2015, PARIS FRANCE
5. Pan left, US President Barack Obama’s arrives at COP21 and shakes hands with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and French President François Hollande
6. Wide shot, French and UN flags
7. Wide shot, Obama at the podium
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of the United States:
“I come here personally as the leader of the world’s greatest economy and the second largest emitter to say that the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”
FILE - 08 DECEMBER 2015 PARIS, FRANCE
9. Various shots, Ban and US Secretary of State John Kerry walking through venue
10. Wide shot, Ban and Kerry shaking hands
FILE - 12 DECEMBER 2015, PARIS, FRANCE
11. Med shot, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announcing agreement and gavelling
12. Wide shot, Al Gore and delegates applauding
The Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, Stephane Dujarric, today (5 Nov) said that the United States’ official notification of its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement “had been announced, and therefore was expected.”
Dujarric said, the Organization’s “determination to move forward on the implementation of the Paris Agreement remains unchanged.”
He said, “we continue to encourage member states to actively engage ahead of COP25 in Madrid to raise ambition, to tackle and defeat climate change.”
At COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015, Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and to accelerate and intensify the actions and investments needed for a sustainable low carbon future.
President Barack Obama at the time highlighted the pivotal role played by the US as “the world’s greatest economy and the second largest emitter” and said, “the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it.”
President Donald Trump, on 1 June 2017, announced that the US would abandon the Agreement. On Monday (4 Nov) the US notified the Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary, its withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.
The US had signed the Paris Agreement on 22 April 2016 and expressed its consent to be bound by the Agreement by acceptance on 3 September 2016.
In accordance with the provisions of its article 28, paragraph 1, the United States could withdraw from the Paris Agreement as of Monday by giving written notification to the Secretary-General.
According to Article 28, paragraph 2, of the Paris Agreement, the withdrawal of the United States will take effect on 4 November 2020.
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