NAGOYA / BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT OPENING

The UN Convention on Biological Diversity addresses climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation and land degradation as a single challenge at the opening of its two-week-long high-level summit in Nagoya, Japan. CBD

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:11
• Production Date: 18 October 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: ENVIRONMENT; LAND; PLANTS; SOIL RESOURCES
• Geographic Subject: JAPAN
• MAMS Id: U101018f

Description

STORY: NAGOYA / BIODIVERSITY SUMMIT OPENING
TRT: 1:11
SOURCE: CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: JAPANESE / NATS

DATELINE: 18 OCTOBER 2010, NAYOGA, JAPAN

Shotlist

1. Med shot, speakers at conference arriving at podium
2. Cutaway, delegates
3. SOUNDBITE (Japanese) Ryu Matsumoto, Minister if Environment, Japan:
“The natural environment that we deal with at this conference is delicate and complicated and it’s no possible to understand all of its magnificence. We also need to recognize that once it’s lost, it can never be restored.”
4. Cutaway, delegates
5. Med shot, Yoko Deva playing the shinobue (flute)
6. Close-up, conference logo animation
7. Wide shot, audience clapping
8. Wide shot, conference

Storyline

Delegates from across the world have gathered in the Japanese city of Nagoya today (18 October) for a United Nations (UN) conference to discuss a new strategy to halt the alarming loss of the Earth’s biodiversity, driven largely by human activity, a trend experts warn threatens the planet’s capacity to sustain human well-being.

Japanese Minister for Environment Ryu Matsumoto, who opened the conference, said “the natural environment that we deal with at this conference is delicate and complicated and it’s no possible to understand all of its magnificence. We also need to recognize that once it’s lost, it can never be restored.”

During the event, more than 15,000 participants, the highest number ever recorded for such a meeting, representing the 193 Parties and their partners are expected to wrap up negotiations on a new strategic plan on biodiversity for the 2011-2020 period.

That plan will be submitted to the high-level segment of the conference, which will begin on 27 October and will be attended by several world leaders and more than 100 environment ministers.

Head of the UN Environment Programme Achim Steiner and head of the Convention of Biological Diversity Ahmed Djoghlaf also addressed the conference today.