MEXICO / ENERGY CONFERENCE CLOSING

The global conference on renewable energy wraps its three-day conference in León, Mexico. Experts and decision makers met to come up with concrete proposals for renewable energy for developing countries in time for COP15. UNIDO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:33
• Production Date: 9 October 2009
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION- UNIDO
• Subject Topical: NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENERGY RESOURCES
• MAMS Id: U091009e

Description

STORY: MEXICO / ENERGY CONFERENCE CLOSING
TRT: 1.33
SOURCE: UNIDO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 9 OCTOBER 2009, LEON, MEXICO

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, exterior of conference centre
2. Pan left, from audience to panel
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO):
“I was asked by someone this morning, ‘Dr. Yumkella, when are you going to have the next conference?’ I said in 2010 I don’t want to have another conference. I want you and us to begin to design the programs to design the solutions that we take to the communities.”
6. Cutaway, cameramen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella, Director-General, United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO):
“Energy justice means all of us must care about the planet. But we must also care about the 2.6 billion who live below $2 a day.”
8. Wide shot, Governor Juan Manuel Oliva and Yumkella arrive for signing ceremony
10. Cutaway, cameramen
11. Various shots, signing the turbine

Storyline

The Global Renewable Energy Forum in Leon, Mexico ended Friday (9 October) with a strong message to take the results and ideas hammered out in the three-day conference of experts, and put them into effect in the local level.

Some one thousand experts and decision-making level political leaders from forty countries discussed energy and climate change, access to energy for the poor, energy and climate change, bio-fuels, and food security.

Kandeh K. Yumkella, the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), one of the sponsors of the meeting said the Leon conference - the third such meeting this calendar year - would not be followed by a fourth.

He said, “I was asked by someone this morning, ‘Dr. Yumkella, when are you going to have the next conference?’ I said in 2010 I don’t want to have another conference. I want you and us to begin to design the programs to design the solutions that we take to the communities.”

Mexican President Felipe Calderon opened the session Wednesday with a proposal for a special fund to enhance access to energy for the poor.

Yumkella closed the sessions Friday by saying, “Energy justice means all of us must care about the planet. But we must also care about the 2.6 billion who live below $2 a day.”

In a symbolic gesture to encourage renewable energy, Yumkella and Guanajuato Governor Juan Manuel Oliva signed a gigantic wind turbine which will soon be installed in Mexico.