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UN / WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
STORY: UN / WORLD DEVELOPMENT REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 3.18
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 14 SEPTEMBER 2009, WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES / FILE
2008, FIJI
1. Wide shot, wind energy technology
2008, RWANDA
2. Wide shot, solar energy panels
2007, CHONGQING, CHINA
3. Wide shot, truck in garbage site
2006, RUSSIA
4. Med shot, carbon emission from cars
5. Wide shot, heavy traffic with carbon emissions
2009, ROMANIA
6. Zoom in, plantation field
2007, RUSSIA
7. Med shot, drilling machine
8. Pan left, emissions from factories
2008, INDIA
9. Med shot, people
14 SEPTEMBER 2009, WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics:
“Developing countries face 75 to 80 percent of the potential damage due to the global warming and they urgently need to prepare to face the challenges in rising sea levels, flood and drought. We need to help them improve their agricultural productivity to cope with the malnutrition problem and to build up weather resistance infrastructure.”
2007, VIETNAM
11. Zoom out, rural area with mountains sunset
2007, MOZAMBIQUE
12. Tilt down, women collecting fish
2008, INDIA
13. Med shot, women sorting out grain
2007, INDONESIA
14. Wide shot, fisherman walking in the water
2002, CHONGQING, CHINA
15. Med shot, people
2007, VIETNAM
16. Med shot, market
17. Wide shot, sun
18. Wide shot, people on bicycles
2009, TAJIKISTAN
19. Wide shot, school children walking outside building
20. Pan right, interior of old building
21. Med shot, interior of old building
2007, NIGER
22. Wide shot, kids standing with cow in open field
23. Pan left, dried farm field
24. Wide shot, cow walking through mud
25. Pan right, desert land
2007, PERU
26. Med shot, llamas
27. Pan left, lacier on mountain
28. Close up, melted ice
2007, INDONESIA
29. Med shot, man diving in coral reef
2009, BRAZIL
30. Aerial shot, the Amazon
31. Med shot, man walking the Amazon
2007, NIGER
32. Wide shot, dry land
2008, FIJI
33. Zoom out, wind energy technology
14 SEPTEMBER 2009, WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosina Bierbaum, World Development Report Co-Director and Dean of University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment:
“Fortunately, there are new clean energy technologies that can greatly change the trajectory of greenhouse gases and protect us from catastrophic change. But we have to act together, we have to act now, act differently, act as a planet and it must act in the next 10 years or we will not be able to avoid catastrophic climate change.”
2009, PICO BONITO, HONDURAS
35. Close up, planting of plant
14 SEPTEMBER 2009, WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES
36. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Sierra, Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank:
“Climate smart growth and low carbon growth is already underway. We have many countries that have come to us to say give us a hand both in terms of knowledge for what works and the financing.”
2009, TURKEY
37. Wide shot, truck at a recycling center
38. Med shot, workers unloading truck
2009, ROMANIA
39. Wide shot, marshlands
2009, PICO BONITO, HONDURAS
40. Zoom in, mountains
2007, NIGERIA
41. Wide shot, oil refinery
42. Med shot, boy watching gas flare
2007, RUSSIA
43. Wide shot, people
2007, UGANDA
44. Wide shot, hazy sky with electricity grid tower
45. Wide shot, landscape with sunset
A new World Bank report says a climate smart world is achievable for developing countries, but only with financial and technical support from the developed world. The World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change also says high income countries must lead global action on climate change by reducing their own heavy carbon footprints.
Developed countries can help to create a climate-smart world in two ways – by cutting their own carbon emissions and by increasing funding for developing countries.
The report says it’s important for rich countries to take the lead, because they are responsible for about 50 percent of global emissions.
Yet it says developing countries will bear most of the cost of damage from climate change.
SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Lin, World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics:
“Developing countries face 75 to 80 percent of the potential damage due to the global warming and they urgently need to prepare to face the challenges in rising sea levels, flood and drought. We need to help them improve their agricultural productivity to cope with the malnutrition problem and to build up weather resistance infrastructure.”
Even a global two degrees Celsius warming could result in permanent reductions in annual per capita consumption of four to five percent for Africa and South Asia.
In East Asia and the Pacific, a large number of people live along the coast and on low-lying islands—over 130 million people in China, and more than half the entire population, in Vietnam, making them vulnerable to climate change.
Meanwhile, aging and inadequate infrastructure and housing in Eastern Europe and Central Asia are ill suited to withstand storms, heat waves, or floods.
Water is a major issue in the Middle East and North Africa, the world’s driest region.
Here, the amount of water available per head is likely to be halved by 2050 even in the absence of climate change.
And in Latin America and the Caribbean, critical ecosystems are under threat with disappearing glaciers and bleached coral reefs, and large-scale dieback of the Amazon rainforest could have severe effects on the world’s climate.
To reduce the risk of dramatic climate change in the future, the world’s energy system needs to be radically transformed.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rosina Bierbaum, World Development Report Co-Director and Dean of University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment: “Fortunately, there are new clean energy technologies that can greatly change the trajectory of greenhouse gases and protect us from catastrophic change. But we have to act together, we have to act now, act differently, act as a planet and it must act in the next 10 years or we will not be able to avoid catastrophic climate change.”
The good news is progress is being made.
SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Sierra, Vice President, Sustainable Development, World Bank:
“Climate smart growth and low carbon growth is already underway. We have many countries that have come to us to say give us a hand both in terms of knowledge for what works and the financing.”
An example is Turkey who has a program to introduce renewables and new policies that will improve energy efficiency.
The World Development Report also cautions that climate-smart policy cannot be framed as choosing between growth and climate change.
A balance must be struck with policies that reduce vulnerability and finance the transition to low carbon growth.
Also critical is a change in behavior and public opinion.
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