CALI / GUTERRES COP16

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Nature is life. And yet we are waging a war against it. A war where there can be no winner.” UNIS NAIROBI / UN BIODIVERSITY

• Video Length: 00:02:18
• Production Date: 29 October 2024
• Asset Language: Spanish; French
• Personal Subject: ANTONIO GUTERRES
• Subject Topical: CLIMATE CHANGE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Geographic Subject: COLOMBIA
• MAMS Id: 3294959
• Parent Id: 3294959
• Alternate Title: unifeed241029e

Description

STORY: CALI / GUTERRES COP16
TRT: 02:18
SOURCE: UNIS NAIROBI / UN BIODIVERSITY
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / FRENCH / NATS

DATELINE: 29 OCTOBER 2024, CALI, COLOMBIA

Shotlist

1. Various shots, Guterres arrival, walking to the conference room, walking to the podium
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Nature is life. And yet we are waging a war against it. A war where there can be no winner.”
3. Wide shot, participants, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The drivers of this destruction are embedded in outdated economic models, fueling unsustainable production and consumption patterns. They are multiplied by inequalities – in wealth and power. And with each passing day, we are edging closer to tipping points that could fuel further hunger, displacement, and armed conflicts. We have already altered 75 percent of the Earth's land surface and 66 percent of its ocean environments.”
5. Wide shot, participants, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. That is the spirit of today's Declaration of the World Coalition for Peace with Nature: A call for action to enhance national and international efforts towards a balanced and harmonious relationship with nature.”
7. Wide shot, participants
8. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We can – and we must – save the ecosystems that sustain us and keep our climate goals within reach. The alternative is unthinkable.”
9. Wide shot, participants

Storyline

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said, “Nature is life. And yet we are waging a war against it. A war where there can be no winner.”

Addressing the high-level segment of the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) today (29 Oct) in Cali, Colombia warned that no country is immune to the devastation inflicted by climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and pollution, adding that these environmental crises are intertwined, they know no borders.

He said, “The drivers of this destruction are embedded in outdated economic models, fueling unsustainable production and consumption patterns. They are multiplied by inequalities – in wealth and power. And with each passing day, we are edging closer to tipping points that could fuel further hunger, displacement, and armed conflicts. We have already altered 75 percent of the Earth's land surface and 66 percent of its ocean environments.”

He also said, “Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. That is the spirit of today's Declaration of the World Coalition for Peace with Nature: A call for action to enhance national and international efforts towards a balanced and harmonious relationship with nature.”

The Secretary-General noted that when the Framework was adopted two years ago in Montreal, the world made bold commitments to living in harmony with nature by mid-century.

He stressed that we must now turn these promises into acts.

He concluded, “We can – and we must – save the ecosystems that sustain us and keep our climate goals within reach. The alternative is unthinkable.”