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UN / SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY WRAP
STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE ELECTRICITY WRAP
SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 2 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
2 JUNE 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press conference dais
3. Med shot, cameraman
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tariq Banuri, Director, Division for Sustainable Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs:
“Energy is not only the heart of development and economic growth; it is also the heart of human development. If you do not have energy you cannot get clean water to people, and if you cannot get clean water, you cannot save children and infants from dying. Infant mortality, one of the biggest killers in developing countries is in part related to the lack of access to energy services.”
5. Med shot, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Thierry Vandal, President & Chief Executive Officer, Hydro-Quebec:
“The right way of doing projects is to make sure that three conditions are met. It’s got to make economic sense in the environments in which we operate; it’s got to be environmentally responsible also. We are organizations that have tremendous stewardship and commitment to doing things in environmentally sound ways. And we also understand the projects that make more sense and the projects that work well with the people, the local communities, the local populations, in our case working with aboriginal communities for example, making sure they are on board.”
7. Wide shot, press conference dais
8. Wide shot, conference room 2 dais
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kandeh K. Yumkella Director-General of UNIDO Chair of UN-Energy:
“The moment you say energy, people think about the geopolitics of energy, and we have believed that you cannot achieve the Millennium Development Goals without having access to energy and electricity for the poorest of the poor. You cannot deal with climate change without an energy revolution.”
10. Med shot, Governor Pataki
11. Various shots, signing of declaration
12. Zoom out audience clapping
13. Various shots, m Members of the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership electric cars arriving at UN headquarters
Leaders of the world’s leading electricity companies arrived at United Nations (UN) headquarters today (2 June) riding in electric cars to sign a declaration launching the global initiative for “Strengthening Public-Private Partnerships.”
The Declaration was signed jointly by the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership, originally known as the e8, and UN-Energy, an umbrella body of UN agencies working on sustainable development and their business partners.
They also launched a report outlining the conditions necessary for successful public-private partnerships (PPP) on electricity.
According to the report, launched as the UN General Assembly convened a one-day thematic debate on the green economy, choosing electricity-generating technology appropriate to local conditions is key to the success of such projects, as well as national energy-development goals and plans which have strong long-term policies enshrined in legislation, and assured cost recovery and profit potential for investors in low-carbon technologies.
At a press conference later today, Director of the Division for Sustainable Development Tariq Banuri told reporters that energy “is not only the heart of development and economic growth; it is also the heart of human development” noting, as an example, that “if you do not have energy you cannot get clean water to people, and if you cannot get clean water, you cannot save children and infants from dying.”
Sufficient funding for research, development and deployment of emerging clean-electricity technologies and measures to maximize benefits to communities from new and expanded electrification are the other measures outlined in the report.
President of Hydro-Quebec Thierry Vandal said that projects must make economic sense and have to be “environmentally responsible also.”
He noted that members of the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership “understand the projects that make more sense and the projects that work well with the people.”
At the signing of the Declaration, Chair of UN-Energy Kandeh K. Yumkella said that “you cannot achieve the Millennium Development Goals without having access to energy and electricity for the poorest of the poor” and added that “you cannot deal with climate change without an energy revolution.”
The report stresses the importance of measures to enhance the private sector’s ability to provide capital through various financing alternatives for electricity projects and to design, construct, operate and maintain them.
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