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STORY: GA / CLIMATE SUMMIT 3
TRT: 4.47
SOURCE: UNIFEED - UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
23 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
2. Wide shot, US President Barack Obama at the podium
3. Med shot, US Secretary of State John Kerry
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of the United States:
“The alarm bells keep ringing. Our citizens keep marching. We cannot pretend we do not hear them. We have to answer the call. We know what we have to do to avoid irreparable harm. We have to cut carbon pollution in our own countries to prevent the worse effects of climate change. We have to adapt to the impacts that unfortunately we can no longer avoid. We have to work together as a global community to tackle this global threat before it is too late. We cannot condemn our children and their children to a future that is beyond their capacity to repair.”
5. Zoom out audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of the United States:
“Yes, this is hard, but there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem. We embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only success in combatting climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation, developed and developing alike.”
7. Wide shot, Turkey delegation
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, President of the United States:
“If we place the air that our children will breathe and the food that they will eat and the hopes and dreams of all posterity above our own short term interests, we may not be too late for them. While you and I may not live to see all the fruits of our labour, we can act to see that the century ahead is marked not by conflict but by cooperation, not by human suffering but by human progress and that the world we leave to our children and our children’s children will be cleaner and healthier and more prosperous and secure.”
9. Close up, Leonardo Di Caprio applauding
10. Wide shot, Obama at the podium
11. Various shots, Obama exiting the building
12. Wide shot, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom at the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“I’ll be pushing European Union leaders to come to Paris with an offer to cut emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030. We know from Copenhagen that we are not just going to turn in Paris and reach a deal. We need to work hard now to raise the level of ambition and to work through the difficult issues. To achieve a deal we need all countries, all countries, to make commitments to reduce emissions. Our agreement has to be legally binding, with proper rules and targets to hold each other to account. We must provide support to those who need it, particularly the poorest and the most vulnerable. It is completely unrealistic to expect developing countries to forgo the high carbon route to growth that so many western countries enjoyed.”
14. Wide shot, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto at the podium
15. Wide shot, ECOSOC Chamber
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico:
“All nations of the world should join efforts to reach in 2015 an effective and efficient agreement which incorporates robust financial mechanisms to support national strategies of developing countries. Lastly, Mexico proposes to the General Assembly the creation of an intergovernmental panel for water as a space to develop new works on adaptation that would allow us to better prepare against the impact of climate events that are becoming each time more intense.”
17. Wide shot, Samoan President Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi at the podium
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Prime Minister of Samoa:
“Climate change has political, social and economic implications for peace and security. It impacts on every country, more extensively on some like SIDS than others because their capacity to respond quickly and effectively is constrained by their realities. The time for waiting is over. Today we are here to be part of the solution in a fight against the causes of climate change.”
19. Wide shot, Trusteeship Chamber
US President Barack Obama in his address to the United Nations Climate Summit today (23 Sept), said “the alarm bells keep ringing. Our citizens keep marching. We cannot pretend we do not hear them. We have to answer the call.”
Obama told the audience of world leaders that “we know what we have to do to avoid irreparable harm. We have to cut carbon pollution in our own countries to prevent the worse effects of climate change. We have to adapt to the impacts that unfortunately we can no longer avoid. We have to work together as a global community to tackle this global threat before it is too late. We cannot condemn our children and their children to a future that is beyond their capacity to repair.”
The US President said “there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate. We recognize our role in creating this problem. We embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part and we will help developing nations do theirs. But we can only success in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation, developed and developing alike.”
He said “if we place the air that our children will breathe and the food that they will eat and the hopes and dreams of all posterity above our own short term interests, we may not be too late for them.”
Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom told the meeting that he will be “pushing” European Union leaders at the 2015 climate summit in Paris “to cut emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030.”
He said a future climate agreement “has to be legally binding, with proper rules and targets to hold each other to account” and “must provide support to those who need it, particularly the poorest and the most vulnerable.”
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto told the meeting that “all nations of the world should join efforts to reach in 2015 an effective and efficient agreement which incorporates robust financial mechanisms to support national strategies of developing countries.”
He proposed the creation of an intergovernmental panel for water “as a space to develop new works on adaptation that would allow us to better prepare against the impact of climate events that are becoming each time more intense.”
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa, a Small Island Development State (SIDS) said that “climate change has political, social and economic implications for peace and security” for every country, in particular SIDS, and added that “the time for waiting is over. Today we are here to be part of the solution in a fight against the causes of climate change.”
Many of the more than 120 Heads of States and Government, business, finance and civil society representatives are today expected to announce commitments that will reduce emissions, enhance resistance to climate change and mobilize financing for climate action.