MONTREAL / GUTERRES PRESSER

Secretary-General António Guterres called for a “peace pact with nature,” as well as “a dramatic step up in climate action.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:00
• Production Date: 7 December 2022
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES; INGER ANDERSEN; STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME - UNEP
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE
• Geographic Subject: CANADA
• MAMS Id: 2991387
• Parent Id: 2991387
• Alternate Title: unifeed221207e

Description

STORY: MONTREAL / GUTERRES PRESSER
TRT: 2:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 06, 07 DECEMBER 2022, MONTREAL, CANADA

Shotlist

06 DECEMBER 2022, MONTREAL, CANADA

1. Various shots, exterior, COP15 venue

07 DECEMBER 2022, MONTREAL, CANADA

2. Wide shot, press conference dais
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Humanity's war on nature's is ultimately a war on ourselves. Ladies and gentlemen of the media, that is why I called for a peace pact with nature, a bold post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework with quantified and targeted goals that address the root causes of this destruction and the effective mechanisms of accountability.”
4. Wide shot, press conference dais
5.SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“The addiction to fossil fuels has thrown our climates into chaos. Unsustainable production and monstruous consumption habits are degrading our world, and humanity has become the weapon of mass extinction, as I mentioned yesterday, with a million species at risk of disappearing forever.”
6. Wide shot, press conference dais
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We need businesses and investors to put protection first in their business plans and invest in sustainable production and extraction methods across every link of their supply chains. And we need a dramatic step up in climate action.”
8. Wide shot, press conference dais
9. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Climate action and protection of biodiversity are two sides of the same coin. We need tough regulatory frameworks and disclosure measures that end greenwashing and hold the private sector accountable. We need developed countries to provide meaningful financial support for the countries of the Global South as custodians of the world’s natural wealth following centuries of exploitation and loss.”
10. Zoom out, end of presser

Storyline

Secretary-General António Guterres today (7 Dec) called for a “peace pact with nature,” as well as “a dramatic step up in climate action.”

Speaking to reporters at the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Biodiversity (CBD), Guterres said, “humanity's war on nature's is ultimately a war on ourselves,” and highlighted the need for “a bold post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework with quantified and targeted goals that address the root causes of this destruction and the effective mechanisms of accountability.”

The Secretary-General said, “the addiction to fossil fuels has thrown our climates into chaos. Unsustainable production and monstruous consumption habits are degrading our world, and humanity has become the weapon of mass extinction, as I mentioned yesterday, with a million species at risk of disappearing forever.”

He said, “we need businesses and investors to put protection first in their business plans and invest in sustainable production and extraction methods across every link of their supply chains. And we need a dramatic step up in climate action.”

Climate action and protection of biodiversity, Guterres said, “are two sides of the same coin.”

He said, “we need tough regulatory frameworks and disclosure measures that end greenwashing and hold the private sector accountable. We need developed countries to provide meaningful financial support for the countries of the Global South as custodians of the world’s natural wealth following centuries of exploitation and loss.”

COP 15, as the conference is known, convened governments from around the world to agree to a new set of goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process.

The Conference will also look at the implementation of the protocols of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that deal with the fair and equitable sharing of benefits from the use of nature, and the safe transport, handling and labelling of Living Modified Organisms.