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GLASGOW / COP26 SUMMIT OPENING
STORY: GLASGOW / COP26 SUMMIT OPENING
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 1 NOVEMBER 2021, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM / 31 OCTOBER 2021, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM
31 OCTOBER 2021, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM
1.Wide shot, COP26 banner on street
1 NOVEMBER 2021, GLASGOW, UNITED KINGDOM
2. Wide shot, plenary room
3. Wide shot, US President Joe Biden, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Former US Vice President Al Gore speaking in audience area
4. Med shot, German Chancellor Angela Merkel seated in audience
5. Wide shot, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnston greets Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
6. Wide shot, HRH Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall arriving to plenary
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnston, UK Prime Minister:
"Welcome to COP. Welcome to Glasgow. And to Scotland, whose most globally famous fictional son, is almost certainly a man called James Bond, who generally comes to the climax of his highly lucrative films strapped to a doomsday device.”
8. Close up, COP26 People’s Advocate Sir David Atttenborough in audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnston, UK Prime Minister:
“We can get real on coal, cars, cash and trees. We have the technology to deactivate that ticking doomsday device.”
10. Wide shot, audience
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Brianna Freuean, Climate campaigner:
“In your words, you wield the weapons that can save us or sell us out. I don’t need to remind you the reality of vulnerable communities. If you’re here today, you know what climate change is doing to us. You don’t need my pain or my tears to know that we’re in a crisis. The real question is whether you have the political will to do the right thing, to wield the right words, and to follow it up with long overdue action. If you’re looking for inspiration on this, look no further than the climate leadership of young Pacific people. We are not just victims to this crisis. We have been resilient beacons of hope.”
12. Wide shot, US President Joe Biden applauds
13. Wide shot, audience applauds
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Txai Surui, Indigenous Environmental Rights Defender:
“It’s not 2030, or 2050. It’s now. While you are closing your eyes to reality, my friend since I was a kid was murdered for protecting the forests. Indigenous people are on the frontline of the climate emergency and we must be at the center of the decisions happening here.”
15. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stands and walks to podium
16. Close up, UN Secretary-General António Guterres stands at podium
17. Close up, HRH Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall in audience
18. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, UN Secretary-General:
“The six years since the Paris Agreement have been the six hottest years on record. Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink. We face a stark choice. Either we stop it, or it stops us. And it’s time to say: Enough. Enough of brutalizing biodiversity. Enough of killing ourselves with carbon. Enough of treating nature like a toilet. Enough of burning and drilling and mining our way deeper. We are digging our own graves.”
19. Wide shot, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in audience
20. Wide shot, COP26 People’s Advocate Sir David Atttenborough walks to podium
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Sir David Atttenborough, COP26 People’s Advocate
“In my lifetime, I’ve witnessed a terrible decline. In yours, you could- and should- witness a wonderful recovery. That desperate hope, ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies, is why the world is looking to you. And why you are here.”
22. Close up, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau applauds
23. Wide shot, audience clapping as Sir Attenborough leaves podium
24. Wide shot, plenary room
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados:
“So I ask to you, what must we say to our people, living on the front line in the Caribbean. In Africa, in Latin America, in the Pacific, when both ambition, and regrettably, some of the needed faces at Glasgow are not present.”
26. Close up, Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in audience
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Elizabeth Watuti, Kenyan Climate and Environmental Activist:
“I need to tell you what’s happening in my home country. Right now as you sit comfortably here in this conference center here in Glasgow, over two million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate related starvation.”
28. Wide shot, plenary room
The stage today (01 Nov) was set to hear from Heads of State as COP26 got underway. Co-host and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom was the first to deliver a keynote address at the World Leader’s Summit, comparing the climate crisis to a doomsday device featured in a James Bond movies shot on set in Glasgow.
“We can get real on coal, cars, cash, and trees” he said. “We have the technology to deactivate that ticking doomsday device.”
Two young activists followed on from the Prime Minister, calling on leaders for bold action.
“You all have the power together to be better, to remember that in your words you have the weapons that can save us or sell us out. You don’t need my pain or my tears to end the crisis. We are not just victims of this crisis, we are resilient agents of hope.”
Secretary-General António Guterres took the podium with a blunt opening message: “The six years since the Paris Climate Agreement have been the six hottest years on record. Our addiction to fossil fuels is pushing humanity to the brink”
“We face a stark choice. Either we stop it - or it stops us”, he added, delivering five key messages to world leaders.
The UN chief called for greater ambition on mitigation and immediate concrete action to reduce global emissions by 45 per cent by 2030; an effort that should be led by developed countries.
“Enough of brutalizing biodiversity, killing ourselves with carbon, treating nature like a toilet, burning, and drilling and mining our way deeper.” He added: ““We are digging our own graves.”
Following the UN Chief, COP26 people’s advocate David Attenborough delivered a passionate speech which was accompanied by clips of activists around the world.
“In my lifetime, I have witnessed a terrible decline, in yours, you could, and should witness a wonderful recovery. That desperate hope, ladies and gentlemen, delegates, excellencies, is why the world is looking to you and why you are here”, he underscored.
Kenyan climate and environmental activist Elizabeth Watuti offered the closing address, a plea for the decision makers to take notice of the global situation outside of comfortable conference doors: “I need to tell you what’s happening in my home country. Right now as you sit comfortably here in this conference center here in Glasgow, over two million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate related starvation.”
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