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STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE ENERGY WRAP
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SOURCE: UNTV / WORLD BANK
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, walk up to the podiums
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Close up, reporter taking notes
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Our current energy systems are not sustainable. The global thermostat is rising, threatening development goals and economies small and large. It is clear that we need a transformation in how we produce, use and share energy.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporter taking notes
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“Financing, of course, will be key to achieving our sustainability for all objectives, but those who provide financing, especially that large-scale investors, need to see credible, bankable plans, full of viable energy projects. And to achieve our objective of universal access to electricity by 2030, we need bankable plans in a large number of countries.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
7. Close up, reporter taking notes
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“We will show investors that sustainable energy is an opportunity that they cannot afford to miss. We will offer them an opportunity to earn a return while they help to reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
9. Close up, reporter taking notes
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We expect that the Iranian Government will halt all of these nuclear development programmes, as was agreed in the negotiations, at the same time I understand that key countries of the Security Council will also consider easing some sanctions. In such a case, Iranians will have better and greater access to the energy market.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
11. Close up, reporter taking notes
27 NOVEMBER 2013, NEW YORK CITY
12. Wide shot, Ban and Kim leave
FILE – WORLD BANK - JUNE 2010, SIDI DAOUD, TUNISIA
8. Various shots, wind farm turbines
FILE – WORLD BANK - OCTOBER 2010, KIMPARANA, MALI
9. Wide shot, sign of Kimparana Solar Plant
10. Tilt down, wide of solar panels
11. Close up, panels
FILE – WORLD BANK - JUNE 2010, AIN BENI MATHAR, MOROCCO
12. Various shots, solar plant
The United Nations and the World Bank today (27 November) announced a concerted effort by governments, international agencies, civil society and the private sector to scale up efforts to provide sustainable energy to all.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, after co-chairing with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim a meeting of the Advisory Board of his Sustainable Energy for All initiative, told journalists that “our current energy systems are not sustainable” and “the global thermostat is rising, threatening development goals and economies small and large.”
Ban said it was clear that “we need a transformation in how we produce, use and share energy.”
He praised achievements already attained such as Brazil’s ‘Light for All’ programme that has reached 15 million people, Norway’s commitment of 2 billion kroner ($330 million) in 2014 for global renewable energy and efficiency, and Bank of America’s Green Bond that has raised $500 million for three years as part of its 10-year $50 billion environmental business commitment.
Kim stressed that financing is key to achieving these goals.
He said that “those who provide financing, especially that large-scale investors, need to see credible, bankable plans, full of viable energy projects”, and to achieve the objective of universal access to electricity by 2030, “we need bankable plans in a large number of countries.”
The World Bank President said “we will show investors that sustainable energy is an opportunity that they cannot afford to miss. We will offer them an opportunity to earn a return while they help to reduce poverty and boost shared prosperity.”
Launched two years ago, the initiative seeks to achieve three inter-linked goals by 2030: universal access to modern energy, doubling energy efficiency, and doubling the share of renewable energy, thus providing services such as lighting, clean cooking and mechanical power in developing countries, as well as improved energy efficiency, especially in the world’s highest-energy consuming countries.
Asked about the energy prospect for Iran after the interim agreement between Iran and the P5 +1, he said “we expect that the Iranian Government will halt all of these nuclear development programmes, as was agreed in the negotiations, at the same time I understand that key countries of the Security Council will also consider easing some sanctions.”
In such a case, he said “Iranians will have better and greater access to the energy market.”
Today’s meeting was the Advisory Board’s second, bringing together 42 representatives of business, finance, governments and civil society in a global public-private partnership.
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