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STORY: GA / CLIMATE SUMMIT WRAP
TRT: 5:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED-UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / SPANISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 23 SEPTEMBER 2014, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arriving at the conference
3. Med shot, Bolivian president Evo Morales arriving
4. Med shot, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff arriving
5. Wide shot, General Assembly chamber
6. Wide shot, delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
"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.”
8. Wide shot, delegates applauding
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bill de Blasio, Mayor of the City of New York:
“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.”
10. Wide shot, podium and delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rajendra Pachauri, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC):
“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.”
12. Med shot, delegates
13. 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 tenfold. The opportunity for economic success is present for those nations that seize it.”
14. Med shot, delegates
15. 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."
12. Wide shot, Bolivian President Evo Morales at the podium
SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Evo Morales, President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia:
“We believe that the failure of any developed country to ratify a legally binding, quantified commitment under the Kyoto protocol for the post-2020 period raises serious concerns about its credibility and its sincerity in combatting climate change. We urge all parties to the Kyoto protocol to revisit and raise their ambition to compromise.”
13. Wide shot, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff at the podium
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Dilma Rousseff, President of Brazil:
“A new climate agreement must be universal in its scope, ambitious in its nature and legally binding while respecting the principles and the provisions contained in the framework agreement, particularly the principles of equity as well as common but differentiated responsibilities.”
15. Med shot, Brazilian delegates
15. Med shot, US Secretary of State John Kerry
16. 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.”
17. Close up, Leonardo Di Caprio applauding
18. Wide shot, UK Prime Minister David Cameron at the podium
19. SOUNDBITE (English) David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom:
“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.”
20. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon at the podium
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Leaders reaffirmed their determination to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius by cutting emissions.”
22. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon at the podium
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Many leaders from Government and business supported putting a price on carbon through various instruments and called for intensified efforts to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.”
24. Med shot, Ban’s wide and delegates
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“As we walk together on the road to Lima and Paris in December 2014 and 2015, let us look back on today as the day we decided – as a human family – to put our house in order to make it liveable for future generations.”
26. Pan to right, General Assembly chamber
World leaders agreed to limit global temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius by cutting greenhouse emissions.
In the closing of the climate change summit at UN headquarters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today (23 Sep) that the more than 120 leaders gathered committed to put a price on carbon and to work to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies.
Looking ahead at the Lima Climate Change Conference, in December 2014, Ban called on leaders to set the world on a new course of action.
He said “as we walk together on the road to Lima and Paris in December 2014 and 2015, let us look back on today as the day we decided – as a human family – to put our house in order to make it liveable for future generations.”
As for funding, Ban stressed the commitment of the world leaders to the Green Climate Fund. He noted that $2.3 billion have already been pledged, along with other committed contributions by November 2014.
Early in the morning, UN Chief 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.”
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.
De Blasio said "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.”
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.
Presenting a summary of the IPCC’s fifth assessment report, Pachauri gave three key messages: “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 noted that the path to change is here and all that is needed is political will.
He said “investors are responding. In just the past two years, the green bond market has grown more than tenfold. 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 encouraged world leaders to work to change the course of global climate.
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.”
Bolivian President Evo Morales said “the failure of any developed country to ratify a legally binding, quantified commitment under the Kyoto protocol for the post-2020 period raises serious concerns about its credibility and its sincerity in combatting climate change.”
He urged all parties to the Kyoto protocol “to revisit and raise their ambition to compromise.”
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called for a legally binding climate agreement.
She said “a new climate agreement must be universal in its scope, ambitious in its nature and legally binding while respecting the principles and the provisions contained in the framework agreement, particularly the principles of equity as well as common but differentiated responsibilities.”
Recalling Peoples’ Climate March demonstrations last weekend, US President Barack called on leaders to listen to citizens’ claims.
He 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 warned about the need to leave a better future for the next generations to come.
He said “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.”
UK Prime Minister David Cameron 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 called for a “legally binding” agreement with clear “rules and targets” to achieve.
Cameron said “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.”
