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STORY: UN / BIODIVERSITY
TRT: 3.25
SOURCE: UNTV / CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 MAY 2007 - NEW YORK CITY
FILE - UNTV - MAY 2007 - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
22 MAY 2007 - NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles McNeill, Environment Team Manager of the Environment and Energy Group, UNDP:
"Fortunately the world is waking up to the incredible challenge of climate change. That has a double standard impact not only impacting the quality of our lives, our productivity, but its also endangering bio-diversity. There's estimates that up to thirty percent of all species could be lost by 2050 if climate change continues at the current pace and conversely the stable climate depends on retaining so much of that carbon in the forests, the bugs that crawl leaves and there are massive carbon reserves; so biodiversity and proper management of it is also a hedge to mitigate climate change."
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) John Scott, Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity:
"Indigenous peoples have been on the traditional territories for thousands of years, since millennia and they have an intimate knowledge of the plants and animals in their local areas. Something like eighty percent depends on traditional knowledge for our primary health needs. So its easy sitting in New York to forget about that when you have to pay three or four hundred dollars for your first visit to a doctor, but eighty percent of humanity goes to traditional knowledge holders and traditional medicines at the grassroots level four our health needs and that makes even more important that we save the plants and animals on the earth."
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles McNeill, Environment Team Manager of the Environment and Energy Group, UNDP:
"Biodiversity really provides the welfare system of last resort for the poor. It's a life and death issue for the poor. So we really talk about biodiversity for development, not biodiversity or development and I think that understanding of the relationship is catching up."
9. Wide shot, press conference
FILE - UNTV - 2000 - GUYANA
10. Various shots, indigenous people on canoe
FILE - CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL - DATE AND PLACE UNKNOWN
11. Various shots, lush rain forest
12. Med shot, lemur swinging on branch
13. Med shot, chameleon crawling on branch
FILE - UNTV - DATE UNKNOW - AFRICA
14. Various shots, elephants in wilderness
Five communities in the topics were honoured with the Equator Prize for their work to alleviate poverty through conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
today, the International Day for Biological Diversity.
At a press conference held at headquarters in New York, Charles McNeil, the
Team Manager of the Environment and Energy Group at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said that some 40 per cent of the world's economy was dependent on biodiversity, adding that preservation was an issue for both developing and industrialized countries.
Fortunately, he said, the world was waking up to the challenge of climate change,
but that it's also endangering bio-diversity.
John Scott, Programme Officer for Traditional Knowledge at the Montreal-based Convention on Biodiversity, an Equator Initiative partner, said indigenous peoples were crucial partners in saving life on earth, as they had an intimate knowledge of plants and animals. Indeed, 80 per cent of humanity depended on traditional knowledge for primary health needs, making it vital to conserve biological diversity.