GLASGOW / COP26 OPENING PRESSER

Following a series of reports and studies warning that urgent action is needed to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5C within reach, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened today with the key aims of raising ambition on all fronts and finalizing the agreement’s implementation guidelines. UNFCCC

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:00
• Production Date: 31 October 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE - UNFCCC
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• Geographic Subject: UNITED KINGDOM
• MAMS Id: 2678824
• Parent Id: 2678824
• Alternate Title: unifeed211031a

Description

STORY: GLASGOW / COP26 OPENING PRESSER
TRT: 2:00
SOURCE: UNFCCC
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFCCC FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 31 OCTOBER 2021, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, press conference room, speakers arriving to dais.
2. Wide shot, speakers sitting down at dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Alok Sharma, COP26 President:
“I am very pleased to say that COP26 is now formally opened, and I have formally taken on the role of COP President.”
4. Wide shot, dais and journalists in attendance
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alok Sharma, COP26 President:
“When the UK took on the COP presidency, less than 30 per cent of the global economy was covered by net zero target. That figure is now 80 per cent and climbing.”
6. Wide shot, speakers at dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alok Sharma, COP26 President:
“Throughout my presidency, I have championed the position of the climate-vulnerable countries, the developing nations, and I have called for the G20 to play their part. Ultimately, this is a group of nations that represents 80 percent of global emissions, and therefore whilst we all must play our part, they can make, or indeed break the hope of keeping 1.5 within reach.”
8. Close up, speakers at dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change:
“I would say, if you ask me, why are you optimistic? I think from what we are learning and seeing, we know that this transformation can happen. That there are tools, there are instruments, there are solutions. It is a question of time.”
9. Wide shot, Espinosa speaking at dais
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change:
“I can tell you. I see, yes, there are differences of views. But what is reassuring is that I see a unity of purpose. People really wanting to work together in order to achieve a successful outcome here at COP26.”
11. Wide shot, speakers at dais.

Storyline

Following a series of reports and studies warning that urgent action is needed to keep the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global average temperature increases to 1.5C within reach, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opened today (31 Oct) with the key aims of raising ambition on all fronts and finalizing the agreement’s implementation guidelines.

Speaking to reporters, Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), stated: “We know that this transformation can happen. That there are tools, there are instruments, there are solutions. It is a question of time.”

COP26 President Alok Sharma said he is “cautiously optimistic” about progress from the G20 Summit in Rome, but it remained to be seen where discussions and negotiations ended up as he knew “they had not been easy.” Patricia Espinosa expressed her optimism for talks in Glasgow, as she recognized a “unity of purpose.”