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STORY: GA / CLIMATE SUMMIT 1
TRT: 4.25
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Ban Ki-moon arriving at the conference
3. Med shot, Iraqi president Fuad Masum
4. Med shot, Bolivian president Evo Morales arriving
5. Med shot, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro arriving
6. Med shot, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff arriving
7. Wide shot, General Assembly chamber
8. Med shot, delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I am asking you to lead. We must cut emissions. Science says they must peak by 2020, and decline sharply thereafter. By the end of this century we must be carbon neutral. We must not emit more carbon than our planet can absorb. No one is immune from climate change.”
10. Wide shot, podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“I ask all Governments to commit to a meaningful, universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015, and to do their fair share to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.”
12. Wide shot, delegates applauding
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill de Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York:
“For New York, this is particularly urgent. Two years ago, hurricane Sandy left 44 dead in our city. The storms to come will be far more lethal. We are not presented with options. We’ve only one choice: urgent, daring action. New York City has already begun. Greenhouse gas emissions are down 19 percent from 2005 because of the plan instituted by my predecessor Michael Bloomberg, now the UN Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.”
14. Wide shot, podium and delegates
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“I have the privilege to be here to present a summary of the IPCC’s fifth assessment report. This report –compiled by hundred of scientist- is the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever undertaken. Three key messages have emerged from the report. One, human influence on the climate system is clear and clearly growing. Two, we must act quickly and decisively if we want to avoid increasingly destructive outcomes. Three, we have the means to limit climate change and build a better future.”
16. Med shot, delegates
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Gore, Nobel Laureate and former Vice-president of the United States of America:
“Investors are responding. In just the past two years, the green bond market has grown more than ten fold. The opportunity for economic success is present for those nations that seize it.”
18. Med shot, Israeli delegation
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Lenoardo DiCaprio, actor and United Nations Messenger of Peace (MOP):
“Every week we are seeing new and undeniable climate events; evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now. Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying with methane fumes rising up from the oceans floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, and the west Antarctica and the Greenland’s ice sheet are melting at unprecedented rates decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric and none of this is hysteria. It is fact.”
20. Med shot, Nauru’s delegation
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Lenoardo DiCaprio, actor and United Nations Messenger of Peace (MOP):
“My friends, this body –perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified by it.”
22. Med shot, delegates
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Civil Society Representative from the Marshall Islands:
“Climate change is a challenge that few want to take on, but the price of inaction is so high. Those of us from Oceania are already experiencing it first hand. We’ve seen waves crashing into our homes and our fruit trees withers from the salt and droughts. We look at our children and wonder how they would know themselves or their culture should we lose our islands.”
24. Wide shot, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner standing with her family by the podium
25. Med shot, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner standing with her family by the podium
25. Wide shot, delegates applauding
World leaders have been urged by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to set the world on a new course.
Many of the more than 120 heads of states and government, business, finance and civil society representatives gathered today (23 Sept)at UN headquarters for the climate change summit are expected to announce commitments that will reduce emissions, enhance resistance to climate change and mobilize financing for climate action.
Speaking to delegates, Ban called for investment in climate resilient societies that protect all, especially the most vulnerable.
He said “I am asking you to lead. We must cut emissions. Science says they must peak by 2020, and decline sharply thereafter. By the end of this century we must be carbon neutral. We must not emit more carbon than our planet can absorb. No one is immune from climate change.”
Ban noted that the human, environmental and financial cost of climate change is fast becoming unbearable.
He also asked all governments “to commit to a meaningful, universal climate agreement in Paris in 2015, and to do their fair share to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius.”
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said there was only one option – urgent, daring action on climate change.
He vowed to follow through on climate efforts initiated by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, who is now Ban’s Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.
De Blasio also said “for New York, this is particularly urgent. Two years ago, hurricane Sandy left 44 deaths in our city. The storms to come will be far more lethal. We are not presented with options. We’ve only one choice: urgent, daring action. New York City has already begun. Greenhouse gas emissions are down 19 percent from 2005 because of the plan instituted by my predecessor Michael Bloomberg, now the UN Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change.”
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairperson (IPCC) Rajendra Pachauri noted that each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the earth’s surface than any other decade since 1850.
He stressed that he came to the Summit to present a summary of the IPCC’s fifth assessment report.
Pachauri said,"this report –compiled by hundred of scientist- is the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever undertaken. Three key messages have emerged from the report. One, human influence on the climate system is clear and clearly growing. Two, we must act quickly and decisively if we want to avoid increasingly destructive outcomes. Three, we have the means to limit climate change and build a better future.”
Former United States Vice-President Al Gore underscored that the world has entered a period of consequences.
He noted that the path to change is here and all that is needed is political will.
Al Gore outlined some positive aspects, he said “investors are responding. In just the past two years, the green bond market has grown more than ten fold. The opportunity for economic success is present for those nations that seize it.”
Participants also heard from newly-appointed UN Messenger of Peace Leonardo DiCaprio who said he was speaking not as an expert but as one of the 400,000 concerned citizens who marched in New York on Sunday, as part of the worldwide Peoples’ Climate March demonstrations.
He said, “every week we are seeing new and undeniable climate events; evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now. Droughts are intensifying, our oceans are acidifying with methane fumes rising up from the oceans floor. We are seeing extreme weather events, and the west Antarctica and the Greenland’s ice sheet are melting at unprecedented rates decades ahead of scientific projections. None of this is rhetoric and none of this is hysteria. It is fact.”
DiCaprio stressed “my friends, this body –perhaps more than any other gathering in human history – now faces this difficult but achievable task. You can make history or you will be vilified by it.”
Speaking on behalf of civil society, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner from the Marshall Islands said “climate change is a challenge that few want to take on, but the price of inaction is so high. Those of us from Oceania are already experiencing it first hand. We’ve seen waves crashing into our homes and our fruit trees withers from the salt and droughts. We look at our children and wonder how they would know themselves or their culture should we lose our islands.”
She also delivered a moving poem to her infant daughter saying that she won’t let her down on climate change action. The infant was brought onstage, met with a standing ovation.