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STORY: WORLD BANK / CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 2.40
SOURCE: WORLD BANK / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 24 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON, DC / FILE
FILE – WORLD BANK – 2013, BANGLADESH
1. Wide shot, coastal beach
FILE – WORLD BANK – 2012, NEPAL
2.Wide shot, hazy, setting sun
3.Wide shot, fields suffering from drought
4.Close up, branches suffering from drought
24 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON, DC
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“So in this third report in the series Turn Down the Heat-Confronting the New Climate Normal-the really important new finding I think is that all of the pollution that we put into the atmosphere in the past decades means that we are now locked in to a one and a half degree centigrade increase in temperature by the midcentury. That means that there’s very little we can do about that and so we have to be able to adapt to build resilience to that. That one and a half degrees it is going to have profound impacts on the development opportunities of countries all over the world.”
FILE –WORLD BANK – 2012, BOLIVIA
6. Wide shot, mountains
7. Wide shot, dried up river bed
8. Wide shot, La Paz with mountains in background
FILE – WORL BANK – 2014, LEBANON
9.Wide shot, street scene
24 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON, DC
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“The findings of the report for Latin America-this is going to have severe impacts on all aspects of the economy so for example on agricultural productivity this could see a 70% reduction in soybean yield and a 50% reduction in wheat yield by 2050. For an economy structured the way that Brazil’s is this would have enormous impact.”
FILE – WORLD BANK – 2014, AZERBAIJAN
11. Zoom out, mountains to farm
12. Med shot, tomato plant
24 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON, DC
13.SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“The impact on the glaciers of Central Asia is going to show huge disruption to water flows in both the summer and the winter with draughts and heat spots and then torrential flows of water. This will have an impact on agricultural productivity, on rural livelihood, on urban living, and in fact on the security of the whole region.”
FILE – WORD BANK – 2014, LEBANON, 2014
14.Med shot, woman cleaning pots and pans
15.Close up, pots and pans
16.Close up, jugs
24 NOVEMBER 2014, WASHINGTON, DC
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“And what the report shows is that by 2040 for some parts of the Middle East and North Africa we’d be looking at a 40% reduction in rainfall patterns. Now what that means is you’ll have extreme heat in cities; you’ll have an impact on agricultural systems and so what we eat and how we eat it-who gets to eat-will all be affected. And this will have an exacerbated impact on what it is already a water stressed region of the world.”
FILE – WORLD BANK – 2011, BANGLADESH
18. Various shots, downpour in field
A new World Bank Group report says Climate Change is creating a ‘new normal’ of severe weather patterns that will affect crops, businesses and coastal cities; adding that the impact of Climate Change may now be unavoidable because the Earth’s atmospheric system is locked into warming close to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by mid-century.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“So in this third report in the series Turn Down the Heat-Confronting the New Climate Normal-the really important new finding I think is that all of the pollution that we put into the atmosphere in the past decades means that we are now locked in to a one and a half degree centigrade increase in temperature by the midcentury. That means that there’s very little we can do about that and so we have to be able to adapt to build resilience to that. That one and a half degrees it is going to have profound impacts on the development opportunities of countries all over the world.”
The report reveals how rising global temperatures are increasingly threatening the health and livelihoods of vulnerable populations in the regions of Latin-America and the Caribbean, in parts of Europe and Central Asia, and in the Middle East and North Africa.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“The findings of the report for Latin America-this is going to have severe impacts on all aspects of the economy so for example on agricultural productivity this could see a 70% reduction in soybean yield and a 50% reduction in wheat yield by 2050. For an economy structured the way that Brazil’s is this would have enormous impact.”
For Central Asia, the rise in temperature will adversely impact glaciers, the report reads.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“The impact on the glaciers of Central Asia is going to show huge disruption to water flows in both the summer and the winter with draughts and heat spots and then torrential flows of water. This will have an impact on agricultural productivity, on rural livelihood, on urban living, and in fact on the security of the whole region.”
And warmer temperatures in the Middle East and North Africa will intensify pressure on scarce water resources – threatening regional food security.
SOUNDBITE (English) Rachel Kyte, World Bank Group, Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change:
“And what the report shows is that by 2040 for some parts of the Middle East and North Africa we’d be looking at a 40% reduction in rainfall patterns. Now what that means is you’ll have extreme heat in cities; you’ll have an impact on agricultural systems and so what we eat and how we eat it-who gets to eat-will all be affected. And this will have an exacerbated impact on what it is already a water stressed region of the world.”
The report also warns that if warming continues unabated, irreversible changes on a large scale could be triggered. In northern Russia, forest dieback and thawing of permafrost threaten to amplify global warming as stored carbon and methane are released into the atmosphere, giving rise to a self-amplifying feedback loop. Methane emissions could increase by 20 to 30 percent across Russia at 2°C warming by 2050.
