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GA/ BIODIVERSTIY WRAP
STORY: UN / BIODIVERSITY WRAP
TRT: 3:39
SOURCE: UNTV / UNESCO / UNHCR /UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH / ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
21 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United nations headquarters with press island
22 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, General Assembly Deis
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Joseph Deiss, President of the 65th General Assembly, United Nations:
“Preserving biodiversity is inseparable from the fighting against poverty, improving health, prosperity and security of present and future generations as well as the fight against climate change. Preserving biodiversity is not a luxury but a duty.”
4. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon approaches podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Many still think the Earth is ours to use as we like. This argument betrays a woeful ignorance of the importance of ecosystems to our well-being as a species to climate regulation, to water supplies, to food security. In this International Year, we need to demonstrate the concrete benefits of investing in biodiversity.”
6. Cutaway, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Last year’s financial crisis was a wake-up call to governments on the perils of failing to oversee and regulate complex relationships that affect us all. The biodiversity crisis is no different. We are bankrupting our natural economy. We need to fashion a rescue package before it is too late.”
FILE / RECENT 2010, EVERGLADES, FLORIDA, USA
8. Pan right, aerial (fish eye lens) Everglades National Park
9. Various shots, low aerial views of the Everglades
10. Various shots, inside the Everglades
22 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Izabella Teixeira, Minister of the Environment, Brazil:
“One of the key messages of the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that, over the past century, certain economic sectors have been benefited from the conversion of natural ecosystems and the exploitation of biodiversity. But these gains were achieved at the cost of increasing losses to biodiversity, degradation of ecosystems services and increase and spread poverty.”
FILE / UNTV / OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA
12. Various shots, women walking in barren landscape
13. Med shot, lorry carrying dry branches
14. Close up, dry barren land
22 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Norbert Roettgen, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany:
“Second by second, minute by minute we are destorying the natural foundations of our lives. During the time of my speech alone the equivalent of one hundred and seventy football fields will have been deforested; more than nine hundred tons of fish will have been taken from the worlds oceans; one more species might even have vanished from our planet for ever and we let it happen.”
FILE / FILE - UNICEF - 1-3 MARCH 2010, MAO, CHAD
16. Close-up, skull of a dead donkey
17. Med shot, skeleton of the donkey
FILE – UNESCO / 2001, GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, ECUADOR
18. Various shots, seals
19. Various shots, turtles
22 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, EU:
“Valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services should come naturally after all investing in biodiversity is not luxury it is a sound investment that can bring multiple benefits.”
FILE / UNESCO / DATE UNKNOWN, PHOENIX ISLANDS PROTECTED AREA, KIRIBATI
21. Various shots, sharks
22. Various shots, marine life
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told delegates today that a rescue package similar to that introduced after the global financial crisis is urgently needed to halt the worldwide loss of biodiversity, which is resulting in a heavy human cost.
Speaking at a high-level General Assembly event on biodiversity at the United Nations (UN) in New York, he said that “many still think the Earth its ours to use as we like” and that argument betrays a “woeful ignorance” of the importance of ecosystems to climate regulation, water supplies, food security and our well-being.
According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), ecosystems – and the biodiversity that underpins them – generate services worth trillions of dollars, supporting livelihoods around the world.
Brazil’s environment minister Izabella Teixeira said that certain economic sectors had benefited from the conversion of natural ecosystems and the exploitation of biodiversity, adding that those gains were achieved at a cost.
According to the UN, the world will not meet the 2010 target to slow the decline in biodiversity, part of the eight globally-agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Nearly 17,000 plant and animal species are currently at risk of extinction, while the number of species under threat of being wiped out is also growing by the day.
Germany’s environment minister Norbert Roettgen said that during the time of his speech alone, “the equivalent of one hundred and seventy football fields will have been deforested, more than nine hundred tons of fish will have been taken from the worlds oceans, one more species might even have vanished from our planet for ever and we let it happen.”
Although investment to reverse biodiversity decline has increased, the main causes of the decline – high consumption rates, habitat loss, pollution and climate change – are not adequately being tackled.
European Union’s Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso stressed that investing in biodiversity is not luxury it is a sound investment that could bring multiple benefits.
In October all 193 parties to the biodiversity convention are scheduled to meet in Nagoya, Japan, next month to adopt a strategic plan on biodiversity and a 2050 biodiversity vision.
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