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UNFPA / WORLD POPULATION ADVANCER (EMBARGOED 18 NOV 2009 1200 GMT)
STORY: UNFPA / WORLD POPULATION ADVANCER
TRT: 3.21
SOURCE: UNFPA / UNTV / UNICEF / IRIN / VTV
RESTRICTIONS: ***EMBARGOED UNTIL 18 NOVEMBER 2009, 1200 GMT***
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 15 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – UNTV - JULY 2009, BOLIVIA, HUAYNA POTOSI
1. Wide shot, Huayna Potosi Glacier
2. Med shot, summit of Huayna Potosi Glacier
15 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Thoraya A. Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund:
“Policies or treaties that fail to take into account the realities of half the world's population will not succeed. If Governments are serious about stopping climate change, they should remove obstacles to women's participation in the climate-change debate.”
FILE – UNTV - JULY 2009, ILLIMANI, LA PAZ, BOLIVIA
4. Wide shot, Illimani Mountain
5. Wide shot, curved river bed
FILE - UNFPA - NOVEMBER 2007, BOLIVIA
6. Wide shot, pregnant woman
7. Med shot, woman with baby on her back
15 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Thoraya A. Obaid, Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund:
“Solving climate change is not only about limiting industrial carbon emissions or decreasing the amount of gas a car uses. It's also about seemingly unlikely issues, such as women's empowerment, equal rights for men and women, access to reproductive health and family planning services and education for girls.”
FILE - UNTV - JULY 2009, CHACALTAYA MOUNTAIN RANGE, BOLIVIA
9. Tilt up, Chacaltaya Glaciar dry
10. Close up, dry corn in barren land
FILE - UNFPA - NOVEMBER 2007, BOLIVIA
11. Wide shot, woman herding sheep
FILE - UNTV - JULY 2009, ILLUMANI MOUNTAIN, ANACHUMA CHICO, BOLIVIA
12. Wide shot, Illumani Mountain and the Anachuma village below
15 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Thoraya A. Obaid, United Nations Population Fund Executive Director:
"Each region faces its own challenges. In the Andes, for example, tropical glaciers are melting, and that means less water for agriculture and human consumption, and that means that young people are leaving rural areas for jobs in the city. Mainly it is the older women who are left behind. And these older women are having to work harder and harder to take out a living and to travel farther and farther to find enough water to drink. The Caribbean is no stranger to hurricanes, but the frequency and force of these storms have increased over the past few years. 2008 was a particularly devastating year for countries like Cuba and Haiti.”
FILE – VTV (NATIONAL TELEVISION BROADCASTER FOR VIETNAM) - SEPTEMBER 2009, TYPHOON KETSA, VIET NAM
14. Tracking shot, floods
16. Zoom out, children playing in food water
17. Med shot, women evacuating homes
FILE – UNICEF - MARCH 3 2007, TRINIDAD CITY, BOLIVIA
18. Aerial shots, flooding in Trinidad city
19. Med shot, women and girls with all their belongings outside the house porch
20. Med shot, girls walking on wooden planks floating on flooded streets
15 SEPTEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Thoraya A. Obaid, United Nations Population Fund Executive Director:
“The state of the world’s population is about facing a changing world, women, population and climate, and women in developing countries will bare more of the brunt because they tend to be poorer than man and are more dependent on natural resources for food, water and fuel. Women grow more of the food and they collect water, women also gather food used for cooking and heating, and the social roles also put woman at a disadvantage, especially in adapting to climate change.”
FILE - UNTV - OCTOBER 2008, NORTHERN KENYA
15. Close up, dry land
16. Wide shot, camels on a road
FILE – IRIN - OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA
17. Med shot, woman and family sitting
18. Close up, child
19. Med shot, woman walking by animal corpse
FILE - UNICEF- APRIL 2006, NORTHERN KENYA
17. Pan right, dry lagoon plate
The 2009 edition of the State of World Population report, to be launched on 18 November 2009 by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), shows that women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather.
“Poor women in poor countries are among the hardest hit by climate change, even though they contributed the least to it,” according to UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid.
The poor are especially vulnerable to the effects of climate change, and the majority of the 1.5 billion people living on $1 a day or less are women. The poor are more likely to depend on agriculture for a living and therefore risk going hungry or losing their livelihoods when droughts strike, rains become unpredictable and hurricanes move with unprecedented force. The poor tend to live in marginal areas, vulnerable to floods, rising seas and storms.
Research cited in the report shows that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters—including those related to extreme weather—with this gap most pronounced where incomes are low and status differences between men and women are high.
The State of World Population 2009 argues that the international community’s fight against climate change is more likely to be successful if policies, programmes and treaties take into account the needs, rights and potential of women.
In South America, many Bolivians are victims of a warming planet. High up in the Andes mountains...a disaster is in the making as many of the glaciers are melting at rates surprising even the experts. At risk are tens of thousands of people who rely on the water as a source of life
The Caribbean is no stranger to hurricanes, but the frequency and force of these storms have increased over the past few years. 2008 was a particularly devastating year for countries like Cuba and Haiti.
Vietnam's economy is finally thriving after decades of war. But a new and insidious enemy - global warming- is hitting this southeast Asian country, with deadly force.
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