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STORY: BAKU / COP29 YOUTH
TRT: 01:12
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 NOVEMBER 2024, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
1. Pan right, exterior, flags, COP29 entrance
2. Various shots, UN Secretary-General interacting with young climate advocates
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ferdison Valmond, Race to Resilience Youth Fellow, High-Level Climate Champion:
“While indigenous peoples usually occupy less than 10 percent of the world's biodiversity, we also cure and maintain more than 80 percent of biodiversity. So, this speaks volumes of indigenous people’s knowledge, especially young people. Young people are not only the future: they are today. We are the champions for causes that often go unheard, especially in relation to climate crisis. Opportunities for youth to be engaged in decision making.”
4. Med shot, Valmond on screen at meeting with UN Secretary-General
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Basmallah Rawash, Climate activist and trainer, Care About Climate / Project coordinator, Greenish:
“My message that I want to share with world leaders is: Please centralize adaptation and resilience when speaking of climate action. We are not the ones that are supposed to carry the burden of mitigation. We are not the ones who have caused this, but we are the ones that will carry the burden of the biggest struggle at the moment. Please, we don't have to beg for finance. This is duties to be paid. I would like for youth not to be tokenized. Our presence is not for pictures. Our presence is real. Our presence should be tangible. Our voices should be heard.”
6. Med shot, UN Secretary-General meeting with young climate advocates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Zagy Berian, Climate advocate, Youth Climate Justice Fund:
“We have to open the Universal Access Fund in order to provide youth maybe a small grant for realizing their, you know, concrete projects like the solar PV, micro hydro, biogas for their rural community. And the second thing is we want to get some fund to increase capacity building within our network.”
8. Med shot, Obedi participating in UN Act Now social media campaign
9. SOUNDBITE (French) Sylvain Obedi, Executive Director, Enable the Disable Action:
“My message for the COP is that through this COP, I am calling on world leaders to provide young people, including young people with disabilities, with the means to act now by prioritizing inclusive climate actions so that young people, regardless of their abilities, can thrive and have a just future.”
10. Zoom in, exterior, COP29 entrance
In a year marked by record- breaking global temperatures, young people keep raising their voices to ask world leaders to take the urgent steps required on the ground to accelerate actions needed to address the climate crisis.
Their role as agents of changes and the need for intergenerational dialogue and engagement was formally recognized in the outcomes of the Summit of the Future in September 2024.
In line with his strategic priorities and his focus on youth engagement, the Secretary-General convened a youth roundtable at COP29 in collaboration with his Youth Advisory Group and YOUNGO, the official constituency of UNFCCC.
The roundtable built on the UN Secretary-General’s successful engagement with young leaders on the margins of the Summit of the Future in New York and served as an opportunity for young leaders to discuss with the Secretary-General the issues they consider to be the most pressing in the COP29 context.
Participants also conveyed to the Secretary-General the key positions of the youth constituency and the youth climate movement.
UNifeed interview today (14 Nov) at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, some of the young climate advocates who participated at the meeting with the Secretary-General.
Ferdison Valmond from Dominica, Race to Resilience Youth Fellow with the High-Level Climate Champion said, “While indigenous peoples usually occupy less than 10 percent of the world's biodiversity, we also cure and maintain more than 80 percent of biodiversity. So, this speaks volumes of indigenous people’s knowledge, especially young people. Young people are not only the future: they are today. We are the champions for causes that often go unheard, especially in relation to climate crisis. Opportunities for youth to be engaged in decision making.”
Basmallah Rawash, from Egypt, Climate Literacy and Policy Activist, Course Developer, and Trainer at Care About Climate, Project Coordinator at Greenish said, “My message that I want to share with world leaders is: Please centralize adaptation and resilience when speaking of climate action. We are not the ones that are supposed to carry the burden of mitigation. We are not the ones who have caused this, but we are the ones that will carry the burden of the biggest struggle at the moment. Please, we don't have to beg for finance. This is duties to be paid. I would like for youth not to be tokenized. Our presence is not for pictures. Our presence is real. Our presence should be tangible. Our voices should be heard.”
Zagy Berian from Indonesia, Climate advocate at Youth Climate Justice Fund, said, “We have to open the Universal Access Fund in order to provide youth maybe a small grant for realizing their, you know, concrete projects like the solar PV, micro hydro, biogas for their rural community. And the second thing is we want to get some fund to increase capacity building within our network.”
Sylvain Obedi from Democratic Republic of Congo, Executive Director of Enable the Disable Action said, “My message for the COP is that through this COP, I am calling on world leaders to provide young people, including young people with disabilities, with the means to act now by prioritizing inclusive climate actions so that young people, regardless of their abilities, can thrive and have a just future.”
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