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STORY: BAKU / COP29 CITIES TOURISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 04:52
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 20 NOVEMBER 2024, BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
1. Wide shot, exterior, COP29 entrance
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat:
“There's only one road to be pursued. One track. The one we’ll work collectively where social, urban and climate needs are addressed harmoniously over solid economic ground. Yes, we do need more finance flow into cities, but we do need to plan and prioritize.”
4. Wide shot, conference room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director, UN-Habitat:
“Land is scarce and needs to fulfill with social and ecological function. Social and housing needs are large. We take care of people; people take care of the planet. and we should leave no one behind. But we know that already.”
6. Med shot, audience clapping
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“More than 500 million urban residents live in coastal areas and they face sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms. And by mid-century, which is about 25 years from now, up to half of the world’s urban residents could be at risk from extreme heat. But excellencies and colleagues, all hope is not lost.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“Work with each other. In today’s uncertain, unstable and divided world, we need greater cooperation on climate action across all levels. Geopolitical divisions must not undermine the cooperation and collaboration our world needs. Grow and widen your networks.”
10. Wide shot, conference room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“The 25 megacities, just 25 megacities are responsible for 52 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.”
12. Wide shot, conference room
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“But cities are also the victims of the impacts of climate change, and this is where the adaptation measures that cities will have to take, have to be part and parcel of your zoning, your planning, your building standards, etc.”
14. Wide shot, conference room
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“The cities can lead and be part of the big solution, but also ensure that your cities are reflected in the national adaptation plans. That is how we can keep all the citizens of this world safe.”
16. Various shots, audience
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“We have three big asks from this COP. One is, of course, we need to land Article 6. That was done on day one and that is great. That will give us a chance for carbon trading and carbon credits. Excellent. Now we need to get to the quantum: the new hundred billion per year. That number is still in negotiations, but it's absolutely critical.”
18. Med shot, COP29 entrance
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“We need to raise ambition so that the national determined contributions, the third day in a row, that the third edition that have to be submitted this coming February, we have the degree of ambition that it needs. That's really the big asks from this COP 29.”
20. Wide shot, COP29 entrance
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“We build above the average of one Paris a week in terms of new footprint, new urban footprint in the world. Not a new city, but lots of new footprints in the world. And that means that every new building that we build has to be climate smart, has to be energy efficient and has to be doing this thinking about resilience to high waters, to droughts, etc. So, this is a conversation happening here at COP29, and it's very, very meaningful and very critical and important.”
22. Wide shot, COP29 entrance
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“So how do we make sure that the tourism industry itself has a lesser carbon footprint? And at the same time, we need to recognize that many countries, especially countries like small island developing states, they depend on tourism. I live in Kenya. In Kenya, tourism is a very, very big income earner. So, we also need to understand that the tourism sector is impacted by climate change. And so, it is both a victim of and a contributor to climate change. That is why having this first tourism focus in a COP is very important.”
24. Med shot, COP29 entrance
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director, Inger Andersen said, “We build above the average of one Paris a week in terms of new urban footprint in the world.”
Today (20 Nov) is the Urbanization, transport and the first ever Tourism Day at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and at the Opening on Multilevel and Multisectoral Climate Action UN-Habitat Head, Anacláudia Rossbach, said, “There's only one road to be pursued. One track. The one we’ll work collectively where social, urban and climate needs are addressed harmoniously over solid economic ground. Yes, we do need more finance flow into cities, but we do need to plan and prioritize.”
She also said, “Land is scarce and needs to fulfill with social and ecological function. Social and housing needs are large. We take care of people; people take care of the planet. And we should leave no one behind. But we know that already.”
Selwin Charles Hart, UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, said, “More than 500 million urban residents live in coastal areas and they face sea level rise and more frequent and severe storms. And by mid-century, which is about 25 years from now, up to half of the world’s urban residents could be at risk from extreme heat. But excellencies and colleagues, all hope is not lost.”
He concluded, “Work with each other. In today’s uncertain, unstable and divided world, we need greater cooperation on climate action across all levels. Geopolitical divisions must not undermine the cooperation and collaboration our world needs. Grow and widen your networks.”
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), noted, “The 25 megacities, just 25 megacities are responsible for 52 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.”
She added, “But cities are also the victims of the impacts of climate change, and this is where the adaptation measures that cities will have to take, have to be part and parcel of your zoning, your planning, your building standards, etc.”
She continued, “The cities can lead and be part of the big solution, but also ensure that your cities are reflected in the national adaptation plans. That is how we can keep all the citizens of this world safe.”
In a UNifeed interview in the afternoon, UNEP chief explained, “We have three big asks from this COP. One is, of course, we need to land Article 6. That was done on day one and that is great. That will give us a chance for carbon trading and carbon credits. Excellent. Now we need to get to the quantum: the new hundred billion per year. That number is still in negotiations, but it's absolutely critical.”
She also said, “We need to raise ambition so that the national determined contributions, the third day in a row, that the third edition that have to be submitted this coming February have the we have the degree of ambition that it needs. That's really the big asks from this COP 29.”
She added, “We build above the average of one Paris a week in terms of new footprint, new urban footprint in the world. Not a new city, but lots of new footprints in the world. And that means that every new building that we build has to be climate smart, has to be energy efficient and has to be doing this thinking about resilience to high waters, to droughts, etc. So, this is a conversation happening here at COP29, and it's very, very meaningful and very critical and important.”
Commenting on the first ever Tourism Day in a COP, she said, “So how do we make sure that the tourism industry itself has a lesser carbon footprint? And at the same time, we need to recognize that many countries, especially countries like small island developing states, they depend on tourism. I live in Kenya. In Kenya, tourism is a very, very big income earner. So, we also need to understand that the tourism sector is impacted by climate change. And so, it is both a victim of and a contributor to climate change. That is why having this first tourism focus in a COP is very important.”
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