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SHARM EL SHEIKH / COP27 YOUTH
STORY: SHARM EL SHEIKH / COP27 YOUTH
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 10 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
06 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
1. Various shots, exterior COP27 venue
09 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
2. Various shots, Guterres photo op with youth climate activists
10 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
3. Wide shot, youth activists at the youth pavilion “takeovers”
4. Wide shot, Saad Uakkas holding Act Now sign
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Saad Uakkas, Youth Climate Activist from Morocco:
“As a Moroccan youth and African youth climate activist, it's really a pleasure that COP is happening in Africa. And that's why it's really urgent to accelerate the negotiations to adopt climate finance in lost and damage and supporting local communities’ agendas so that we can support the continent and support those who are vulnerable.”
5. Wide shot, Eddy Frank Vasquez Sanchez,
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eddy Frank Vasquez Sanchez, Youth Climate Activist, Dominican Republic:
“As a young person coming from a Small Island Developing State, climate negotiations have a very important value. And the reason I am here as part of the Dominican delegation negotiating team, is to defend our priorities as youth, and so that our future can be climatically secure for everyone.”
7. Wide shot, Margaret Impraim holding Act Now sign
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Impraim, Youth Climate Activist from Ghana:
“I am here to learn on what's going on and help people to understand the need for collaboration as an individual and as organization to collaborate together, to know how to contribute your quota to climate action. Climate action is for each one of us, and as a Ghanaian, I know that something that is important, we all have to come together to make sure that our role is to ensure climate change is eradicated in my country, and particularly in making sure that we all combine our forces and make sure that climate action is real in Ghana.”
9. Wide shot, Disha Annappa Ravi holding Act Now sign
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Disha Annappa Ravi, Youth Climate Activist from India:
“I’m here to ensure that people from India are able to access these spaces, that they are able to join the conversations about climate negotiation because we shouldn’t be negotiating about the climate, because negotiating about the climate is negotiating with our world itself. And there is no negotiation. We need a better present and the future.”
11. Wide shot, Patience Nabuklau holding Act Now sign
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Patience Nabuklau, Youth Climate Activist from Uganda:
“My message to the world leader is to stop investing dirty energies in Africa. Africa is not a dumpster. Africa is not a place for fossil fuel extraction. Africa alone contributes less than 3 percent of global emissions, but we suffer most from the devastating impacts of climate change. We need action and right now.”
13. Wide shot, Txai Suruí holding an Act Now sign
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Txai Suruí, Indigenous leader and activist from the Brazilian Amazon:
“I am here today at COP27 representing the youth, in particular the indigenous youth of Brazil, my country, which is experiencing the worst moments its people have gone through. They are being attacked, their territories are being invaded, and their women raped. People need to act now, and we need everyone. Government, businesses, civil society, and all people so that we can revert and defeat this climate crisis. That means more implementation, it means qualitative and quantitative financing, it means bringing indigenous peoples to the decision table. People need to participate in the whole process, because we are the one who are there every day, fighting and keeping the forests up. Us, indigenous peoples, we are five percent of the world’s population, and we protect 80 percent of all biodiversity.”
15. Various shots, youth at the pavilion
16. Various shots, letters and drawings from youth to nature at the youth pavilion
On their day, the youth climate activists at COP27 took part in different “takeovers” and were seen – and heard – in almost every corner of the conference centre.
They expressed themselves not only by protesting, but also with music, dance, colourful attire and wall drawings with messages to world leaders.
Saad Uakkas, Youth Climate Activist from Morocco said that as a Moroccan youth and African youth climate activist, he is very happy that COP27 is happening in his continent. He said that it is “urgent to accelerate the negotiations to adopt climate finance in lost and damage and supporting local communities’ agendas so that we can support the continent and support those who are vulnerable.”
Eddy Frank Vasquez Sanchez, Youth Climate Activist from the Dominican Republic said, “as a young person coming from a Small Island Developing State, climate negotiations have a very important value. And the reason I am here as part of the Dominican delegation negotiating team, is to defend our priorities as youth, and so that our future can be climatically secure for everyone.”
Ghanian youth climate activist Margaret Impraim said, “we all have to come together to make sure that our role is to ensure climate change is eradicated in my country, and particularly in making sure that we all combine our forces and make sure that climate action is real in Ghana.”
Disha Annappa Ravi from India called for spaces for Indian youth to join the conversations about climate negotiation.
In her message to the world leaders, Patience Nabuklau from Uganda said, “stop investing dirty energies in Africa. Africa is not a dumpster. Africa is not a place for fossil fuel extraction.”
She said, “Africa alone contributes less than 3 percent of global emissions, but we suffer most from the devastating impacts of climate change. We need action and right now.”
Txai Suruí, Indigenous leader and activist from the Brazilian Amazon said, “I am here today at COP27 representing the Youth, in particular the indigenous youth of Brazil, my country, which is experiencing the worst moments its people have gone through. They are being attacked, their territories are being invaded, and their women raped. People need to act now, and we need everyone.”
She continued, “government, businesses, civil society, and all people so that we can revert and defeat this climate crisis. That means more implementation, it means qualitative and quantitative financing, it means bringing indigenous peoples to the decision table. People need to participate in the whole process, because we are the one who are there every day, fighting and keeping the forests up. Us, indigenous peoples, we are five percent of the world’s population, and we protect 80 percent of all biodiversity.”
On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with the youth constituency at COP27.
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