UN / CLIMATE CHANGE

Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Dr. Rajendra Pachauri says the dichotomy of the G8 clearly ignored what the IPCC came up with concerning stabilization of the atmosphere - the G8 leaders agreed to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius, but for that to happen, global emissions have to peak in 2015. UNTV / FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:28
• Production Date: 20 July 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTEGRATED REGIONAL INFORMATION NETWORKS - IRIN; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: ENVIRONMENT
• Geographic Subject: UNITED NATIONS STABILIZATION MISSION IN HAITI - MINUSTAH
• MAMS Id: U090720a

Description

STORY: UN / CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 3.28
SOURCE: UNTV / MINUSTAH / UNICEF / IRIN
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 20 JULY 2009, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

20 JULY 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“What I find as a dichotomy in this position is the fact that they’ve clearly ignored what the IPCC came up with. We had clearly established the tragically by which we could reach stabilization of the earths atmosphere and stabilization of the concentration of greenhouse gases such that temperature increase will not exceed 2 to 2.4 degrees Celsius, and in assessing that particular scenario we had clearly come up with the conclusion that the world will have to ensure that global emissions peak in 2015 and then decline rapidly there after. Now if the G8 leaders agreed on this 2 degree increase as being the limit that could be accepted than I think they should have also accepted the attended requirement of global emissions peaking by 2015 and if that were to be the case then they should most categorically have said that by 2020 they are going to implement the very clear language of the Bali plan of action which stated that by 2020 there would have to be deep cuts in emissions.”
5. Cutaway, journalist
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“President Obama has made this statement on several occasions saying that even the economic downturn is no excuse for inaction on the subject of climate change and the fact that the landmark Waxman-Markey builders is gone through the house is a step forward, what will happen in the senate is another issue, but I believe the US administration is about trying to do its best, whether the best is good enough I think really depends on the whole system by which legislation comes into being.”
7. Cutaway, photographer
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“I think the world has been dependent on fossil fuel much too long. I think with the right kind of investments and research and development we can really usher in a new era in terms of production, supply and consumption of energy which is sustainable, which is based on renewable sources, and all of this requires unprecedented global cooperation.”

FILE – MINUSTAH – 26 AUGUST 2008, PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

9. Wide shot, Port-au-Prince bay, trees in wind
10. Med shot, palm tree blowing
11. Wide shot, street vendors hiding under an umbrella

FILE – UNICEF – 30 AUGUST 2008, ARARIYA DISTRICT, BIHAR INDIA

12. Wide shot, man carrying goods over head in flooded road
13. Wide shot, pull man punting raft through floodwaters
14. Wide shot, people with belongings leaving flooded areas

FILE – IRIN – MAY 2008, MAGADI, KENYA

15. Wide shot, Masai woman walking across dry plain

FILE – UNICEF – 17 NOVEMBER 2007, DHAKA, BANGLADESH

16. Wide shot, rough water crashing on shore
17. Wide shot, aerial view of destroyed houses
18. Various shots, destruction

Storyline

Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Dr. Rajendra Pachauri said the dichotomy of the G8 clearly ignored what the IPCC came up with in its report in 2007 concerning stabilization of the atmosphere – the G8 leaders agreed to limit global warming to no more than two degrees Celsius, but for that to happen, global emissions must peak in 2015.

Speaking to reporters today at United Nations headquarters, Pachauri quoted United States (U.S.) President Barack Obama saying that, “even the economic downturn is no excuse for inaction on the subject of climate change.” He added that he believed that the U.S. administration was trying to do its best.

He also said that the world had been dependent on fossil fuel “much too long”, and that with the right kind of investments and research and development, states could usher in a new era in terms of production, supply and consumption of sustainable energy, but that that required an, “unprecedented global cooperation.”