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STORY: OCHA / COP30 ADVANCER
TRT: 6:22
SOURCE: OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK / FILE
FILE - 9 MAY 2023, BUNDA WEYN VILLAGE, BELET WEYNE DISTRICT, HIRAAN REGION HIRSHABELLE STATE, SOMALIA
1. Various shots, flooded streets
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zinta Sommers, OCHA Climate Science lead, IPCC Vice-Chair Working Group II:
“A lot of progress has been made. Without UN cooperation efforts, would be heading to four degrees currently under the set of NDCs that are existing. We are headed to 2.6 degrees, and there was great hope that with the new NDCs, we could get to a 1.5 degree pathway. Unfortunately, it seems that due to current political constraints, we will not reach the 1.5 degree pathway and the new NDCs will likely mean that we will overshoot 1.5 degrees. But the big hope is that this will only be temporary, and it will get back to 1.5 by 2100. To do that, we need to peak global emissions, get down to net zero by 2050, and then to net negative. That means will have to suck greenhouse gases out of the air, which is in itself a huge challenge.”
FILE - 9 MAY 2023, BUNDA WEYN VILLAGE, BELET WEYNE DISTRICT, HIRAAN REGION HIRSHABELLE STATE- SOMALIA
3. Various shots, flooded streets
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head of Climate Innovation Section OCHA:
“2024 was the hottest year on record. We've already seen, with every further increment of global warming, more extreme weather events, more humanitarian disasters. And we saw this. We've seen this in the past year from flooding in South Sudan to drought in Afghanistan. We've just been through and communities are still reeling from Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean, which was made four times more likely because of climate change.”
1 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
5. Various shots, residents in St Elizabeth Parish joining the World Food Programme to assemble a mobile storage unit on the grounds of a local church, one of the last hard-surface remained after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley Head of Climate Innovation Section OCHA:
“Right now, developing countries need 12 times as much climate adaptation finance than they are receiving. And critically, the communities where humanitarians work communities facing fragility, conflict and violence, they're the most vulnerable. They're the most exposed, and yet they receive the least climate adaptation support. So we need to see these commitments, yes, to scale up financing, but then also critically to get it where it needs, where it's needed the most. That's at the community level.”
1 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
7. Various shots, residents in St Elizabeth Parish join the World Food Programme to assemble a mobile storage unit on the grounds of a local church, one of the last hard-surface remained after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley Head of Climate Innovation Section OCHA:
“We need to see accelerated progress towards expanding early warning. And we know that early warning works in the humanitarian sector. We're taking advantage of the great advances in weather and climate forecasting and technology to act before disasters strike -anticipatory action. We just saw this with Hurricane Melissa in Haiti and in Cuba.”
1 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
9. Various shots, residents in St Elizabeth Parish join the World Food Programme to assemble a mobile storage unit on the grounds of a local church, one of the last hard-surface remained after the passage of Hurricane Melissa.
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley Head of Climate Innovation Section OCHA:
“We need new investments to respond to climate related loss and damage. Unfortunately, even if we make great progress and we're not on track right now to make great progress in mitigating climate change and in building people's resilience, these impacts are already being felt in a deeply unequal way in communities that humanitarian serve are feeling these impacts.”
2 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
11.Various shots, Santa Cruz, Jamaica Humanitarian actors huddling up to strategize on the response to Hurricane Melissa
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Zinta Sommers OCHA Climate Science lead, IPCC Vice-Chair Working Group II:
“There are signs of hope. Countries are often under promising and over delivering, so we can hope that they will take action to reduce emissions much faster and further than they have officially committed in their NDCs.”
2 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
13. Various shot, Santa Cruz, Jamaica Humanitarian actors huddling up to strategize on the response to Hurricane Melissa
6 NOVEMBER 2025, NEW YORK
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Zinta Sommers OCHA Climate Science lead, IPCC Vice-Chair Working Group II:
“Additionally, we have technology. The renewable energy transition is here to stay while energy demand is growing due to increasing use of AI and the need for data processing. We know that we have an increasing use of solar and wind energy that can fill these gaps and these needs. A decade ago, it would take a week to generate a gigawatt of solar power and now it can just take a few hours.”
2 NOVEMBER 2025, SANTA CRUZ, JAMAICA
15. Various shots, Santa Cruz, Jamaica Humanitarian actors huddling up to strategize on the response to Hurricane Melissa
Ahead of COP30, the humanitarian community urges more commitments by Governments to avoid humanitarian impacts of extreme climate events.
“2024 was the hottest year on record” said Greg Puley, Head of Climate Innovation Section at OCHA.
Zinta Sommers OCHA Climate Science lead said, “We've already seen, with every further increment of global warming, more extreme weather events, more humanitarian disasters,” adding that despite a grim outlook, “there are signs of hope.”
She said, “A decade ago, it would take a week to generate a gigawatt of solar power and now it can just take a few hours.”
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