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STORY: GA / CLIMATE PRESSER
TRT: 3.20
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. Wide shot, dais
4. Wide shot, cameramen
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today a coalition of more than 200 mayors, representing 400 million people, will sign a Mayor’s Compact to reduce annual emissions by between 12.4 and 16.4 per cent.”
6. Wide shot, cameramen
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Announcements on agriculture and forests will highlight a commitment by many of the world’s largest and most well-known companies to adapt their supply chains to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change. They will assist 500 million farmers in the process.”
8. Med shot, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Oil and gas companies are today announcing initiatives that will advance efforts to curb the release of methane gas, a highly potent greenhouse gas. We will hear from some of the largest financial institutions, investors, banks and insurance companies.
They will announce that they will shift more than $200 billion dollars toward building low-carbon economies by 2015. Countries are also making significant national announcements.”
10. Wide shot, cameramen
11. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Hollande, President, France:
“We need to define a new economy for the world. If the Summit results in an agenda of solutions this will promote this energetic transition, but also political transition. The agreement which will have to be reached is one which will be linked up to another one, that of sustainable development goals because in September 2015 we will have that adoption.”
12. Wide shot, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Hollande, President, France:
“The contributions will have to be commensurate with the level of the threat. France is taking the initiative of organizing this Climate Conference and France has to act in an exemplary way.”
14. Wide shot, presser
15. SOUNDBITE (French) Francois Hollande, President, France:
“We have to be exemplary in our contributions to the Green Fund, and this is why I announced that France will allocate a billion dollars in the next few years to the Green Fund.”
16. Wide shot, dais
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Ollanta Humala Tasso, President, Peru:
“Tackling these problems from a national point of view is hopeless. It is useless. This is why we need to urge all the nations of the planet to take a proactive and constructive stand to achieve agreements, which will then allow us to ensure that we have a sustainable future for our planet. Otherwise, nature will force us to reach an agreement.”
18. Wide shot, dais
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon stressed that Governments, investors and financial institutions pledged to mobilize $200 billion by the end of next year for low-carbon programmes in developing countries, giving a significant boost to the United Nations goal of reaching $100 billion annually by 2020.
In a press conference –along with French president Francois Hollande and Peruvian president Ollanta Humala- Ban Ki- moon said “oil and gas companies are today announcing initiatives that will advance efforts to curb the release of methane gas, a highly potent greenhouse gas.”
He also outlined that a coalition of more than 200 mayors, representing 400 million people, will sign a Mayor’s Compact to reduce annual emissions by between 12.4 and 16.4 per cent.
Ban also said “announcements on agriculture and forests will highlight a commitment by many of the world’s largest and most well-known companies to adapt their supply chains to reduce emissions and build resilience to climate change. They will assist 500 million farmers in the process.”
Also speaking to reporters, French president Francois Hollande underlined “we need to define a new economy for the world. If the Summit results in an agenda of solutions this will promote this energetic transition, but also political transition. The agreement which will have to be reached is one which will be linked up to another one, that of sustainable development goals because in September 2015 we will have that adoption.”
Hollande noted that the contributions would have to be commensurate with the level of the threat.
He said “France is taking the initiative of organizing this Climate Conference and France has to act in an exemplary way,” adding in “we have to be exemplary in our contributions to the Green Fund, and this is why I announced that France will allocate a billion dollars in the next few years to the Green Fund.”
Finally, the president of Peru Ollanta Humala pointed out that tackling the adaptation to climate change from a national point of view “is hopeless. It is useless.”
He added “this is why we need to urge all the nations of the planet to take a proactive and constructive stand to achieve agreements, which will then allow us to ensure that we have a sustainable future for our planet. Otherwise, nature will force us to reach an agreement.”
The Summit aims to raise ambition, mobilize resources, and generate action towards a universal climate deal that will be hammered out next year in Paris.
