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SHARM EL SHEIKH / COP27 UNEP BIODIVERSITY
STORY: SHARM EL SHEIKH / COP27 UNEP BIODIVERSITY
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGAUGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 NOVEMBER 2022, SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT / RECENT
RECENT - SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT
1.Wide shot, exterior, COP27 venue
2.Wide shot, Goulding at the podium
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Goulding, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador:
“I would ask the global community of leaders to acknowledge that coral reefs are one of our greatest collective assets and to get seriously, seriously ambitious and competitive about funding, restoration and protection. We have an ambitious and workable plan and an amazing climate tolerant reef. So let's just go for it, because we know when we invest in nature, it's just a win for all of us.”
4.Wide shot, Goulding at the podium
5.SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Goulding, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador:
“This plan has all the right ingredients. It harnesses science, technology, innovation and local on the ground, knowledge and supports. And it's just incredibly cool. It gives us collectively the opportunity to flip from being the generation that drives ecosystems to the brink of destruction, to the one that takes action to save them.”
6.Wide shot, Goulding at the podium
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Goulding, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador:
“In order to unlock that opportunity, we need to invest in nature. It's time to fund these precious ecosystems. We know there's a huge gap in global investment in coral reefs is insultingly small. Less than 0.01 percent of climate finance from development banks between 2010 and 2015 went to coral reefs, which is nothing. And it's not just insulting, but it's not cool. It's just not impressive. Because coral reefs are truly one of our biggest assets, as you can see. And with the best return.”
8. Various shots, Goulding walking at the venue
9.SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Goulding, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador:
“Most of the public know, especially young people, are desperate for change and they're frustrated. I've spoken to a lot of the young activists here at the youth pavilions, and they really they're doing all the right things. They're here, they're showing up. And I think just be conscious of everything, you know, like we need new sources and make sure you're not reading fake news. And then, you know, you can take small things into actions in your own life, small changes, you know, get involved with your local community, see if there is group that you can get involved with, see if there are ways that small, tiny habits that you can change that make a huge difference actually in the long run collectively.”
10. Wide shot, Inger Andersen at the podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director:
“We need to think smartly about our footprint, whether it's on the climate side or whether it's on the biodiversity side. If we invest in nature and nature's infrastructure, forests, coral reefs, mangroves, coastal forests, well, it protects us from high storms. It provides habitat for species, but it also stores carbon. So it has both a mitigation and an adaptation dimension.”
12. Wide shot, Inger Andersen at the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director:
“We need to be clear beyond loss and damage, understanding that climate finance, the longer we kick the can on mitigation down the road and we have been procrastinating - this is COP 27. We skipped 28 years - the longer we kick that can down the road, instead of flipping to carbon neutral economies, the more expensive will be the adaptation bill.”
14. Wide shot, Inger Andersen at the podium
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, UNEP Executive Director:
“Net zero commitments, if they are real and genuine and meets a number of markers, can actually really shift. But it could also be greenwashing and we don't want that. So these are important issues. But I think there's also this broader story of sort of how do we deal with climate justice? What does inter-generational look like in a world that is today at 1.1 degree and where our current policies are taking us to 2.8 with the NDCs conditional and unconditional take us to 2.4 degrees in 2100. That is not a world that we can live in. So the urgency of this is important.”
16. Wide shot, Inger Andersen at the podium
As COP27 biodiversity day unfolds in Egypt, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Ellie Goulding called on global community of leaders to acknowledge the importance of coral reefs, and “to get seriously ambitious and competitive about funding, restoration and protection.”
At COP27, there are growing calls for countries to protect conserve and restore the ocean, which experts say is crucial for reducing further global warming and helping communities adapt to the fallout from the climate crisis; as well as keeping the ocean healthy and productive.
The English singer and songwriter today (16 Nov) spoke at a COP27 side event Hope For Coral Reefs. She shared her recent experience diving in the Red Sea which she described the encounter with nature as visually “sheer beauty” and “a magical connection.”
She told the audience that a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found that if the planet warms by 1.5°C, the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement, 70-90 per cent of corals will disappear. At 2°C of warming, 99 per cent of corals, whose colonies support one-quarter of all marine life, will perish.
A plan to protect the Red Sea corals was also launched today by the COP27 hosting country Egypt.
Goulding said that this plan brings together great global organizations like UNEP and provides the science and direction and people who have dedicated their lives to chasing coral.
She said, “this plan has all the right ingredients. It harnesses science, technology, innovation and local on the ground, knowledge and supports,” adding that “it gives us collectively the opportunity to flip from being the generation that drives ecosystems to the brink of destruction, to the one that takes action to save them.”
The UNEP Goodwill Ambassador continued, “in order to unlock that opportunity, we need to invest in nature. It's time to fund these precious ecosystems,” adding that “coral reefs are truly one of our biggest assets, as you can see. And with the best return.”
Later at an interview, Goulding said that she has spoken to many young activists at the COP27 youth pavilion, adding that “young people are desperate for changes, and they're frustrated.”
She encouraged young people to take small things into actions in their life, “get involved with your local community, see if there is group that you can get involved with, see if there are ways that small, tiny habits that you can change that make a huge difference actually in the long run collectively.”
She reiterated, “if we invest in nature and nature's infrastructure, forests, coral reefs, mangroves, coastal forests, well, it protects us from high storms. It provides habitat for species, but it also stores carbon. So it has both a mitigation and an adaptation dimension.”
UNEP Executive Director, Inger Andersen also attended the event. Later at an interview, she said, “we need to think smartly about our footprint, whether it's on the climate side or whether it's on the biodiversity side.”
Anderson also said that beyond loss and damage, “the longer we kick the can on mitigation down the road,” procrastinating flipping to carbon neutral economies, “the more expensive will the adaptation bill be.
On net zero commitments, Andersen said, “if they are real and genuine and meets a number of markers, can actually really shift. But it could also be greenwashing and we don't want that.”
The event Hope For Coral Reefs was organized by The Ocean Agency and UNEP.
UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) will be held in Montreal from December 7-19, where the world will gather to strike a landmark agreement to guide global actions on biodiversity through 2030.
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