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UN / BLOOMBERG CLIMATE CHANGE
STORY: UN / BLOOMBERG CLIMATE CHANGE
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SOURCE: UNTV
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 21 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
21 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
2. Pan right, Former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon walk into the room and pose for photos
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
3. Close up, reporter’s notepad
21 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Megacities like New York can provide very good opportunities. They are now doing a lot on making this city resilient against climate change phenomenon. Land use, transit, and very resilient building codes and sustainable energy, this is what Mayor Bloomberg has been doing when he was Mayor. Now we would like to use his global leadership and power in first of all making our UN Climate Change Summit Meeting in September a great success, and most importantly, we need to have a global legal climate change agreement by 2015, next year.”
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
5. Close up, reporter’s notepad
21 FEBRUARY 2014, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Bloomberg, Special Envoy For Cities And Climate Change:
“I have a strong mission in front of me. I will spend an awful lot of time trying to explain why being environmentally friendly is not only good for the economy, but it’s good I believe for business and people today. And I think that’s what you really have to do, you have to convince people that it id their children today who are being hurt with polluted air, and they are getting hurt when they drink water that isn’t perfectly clean. And they are the ones that are susceptible to having their houses washed away and their loved ones disappear.”
7. Med shot, room
8. Pan left, Ban and Bloomberg leave the room.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (21 Feb) met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, his newly appointed Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.
The role of the Special Envoy will be to galvanize urban action to reduce greenhouse emissions ahead of the United Nations climate summit this coming September.
Ban, addressing reporters, said “megacities like New York can provide very good opportunities” and pointed out that during his tenure as Mayor, Bloomberg had instrumented new rules in “land use, transit, and very resilient building codes and sustainable energy.”
He said he intended to use Bloomberg’s “global leadership and power in first of all making our UN Climate Change Summit Meeting in September a great success, and most importantly, we need to have a global legal climate change agreement by 2015, next year.”
Bloomberg said this was “a strong mission” and added that he will “spend an awful lot of time trying to explain why being environmentally friendly is not only good for the economy, but it’s good I believe for business and people today.”
He said the goal is to “convince people that it id their children today who are being hurt with polluted air, and they are getting hurt when they drink water that isn’t perfectly clean. And they are the ones that are susceptible to having their houses washed away and their loved ones disappear.”
Bloomberg will assist the Secretary-General in his consultations with mayors and related key stakeholders, in order to raise political will and mobilize action among cities as part of his long-term strategy to advance efforts on climate change, including bringing concrete solutions to the 2014 Climate Summit that the Secretary-General will host in New York on 23 September 2014.
Bloomberg, who left office as Mayor on 31 December after 12 years in the job, currently serves as the President of the Board of the C40 Climate Leadership Group; a network of large cities from around the world committed to implementing meaningful and sustainable climate-related actions locally that will help address climate change globally.
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