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STORY: UN / GRENIER WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
TRT: 03:35
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: UNIFEED
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 05 JUNE 2017, NEW YORK CITY
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
05 JUNE 2017, NEW YORK CITY
2. Zoom in, conference room dais
3. Med shot, participants
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Grenier, Actor, United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador:
“Some people erroneously think that creating walls between our people will keep us safer, that divisions between nations will shield us from the effects of an environmental tragedy such as climate change. But it won’t. Divisive rhetoric won’t keep us from coming together, in truth and justice, for our planet. It is not by pitting one city or country against another, it is about building connections between Pittsburgh and Paris, Palermo to Peshawar to Phuket to Prague to Pretoria. That is how we will get to where we need to go.”
5. Wide shot, audience applause
6. Wide shot, top of the Empire State Building
7. Wide shot, Grenier at the Empire State Building observation deck
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Grenier, Actor, United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador:
“I am sick and tired of the sceptics. 99 percent of scientists agree climate change is real. 99 percent of the world are aligned to do something about it. But, at the end of the day science can only tell us what is. It’s about facts, and what is now. It doesn’t tell us what we should do. It doesn’t give us any moral guidance. That’s something that we have to look into our own hearts and decide. And one thing that is undeniable is that we want our children to have a clean, safe environment to play in and to grow.”
9. Various shots, Ambassador Marc-André Blanchard of Canada and Assistant Secretary-General Elliott Harris with Grenier
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Grenier, Actor, United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador:
“The unanimous sentiment is that we need to do something about climate change and do something about man’s effects on the planet. So, keep doing it because momentum is building, there is a critical mass and I am very proud to be a part of that movement. In terms of whether or not we can actually achieve the SDG goals, I do believe we can. We’ve achieved much greater feats and I think with the collaboration and the unity of the entire globe there is nothing that we can’t do. So, absolutely, go for it and we are doing it. It’s happening.”
11. Various shots, Grenier and his mother
12. Various shots, Harris with Grenier signing induction documents
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Adrian Grenier, Actor, United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador:
“It all starts with good upbringing. And my mother is here today, so, she gets the ultimate honour for having done such a great job in bringing me into this work. From the day I was born she taught me to care about myself and the world outside myself. And it’s the principles that she taught me of health and caring for the planet that have really driven my passion to try to make the world a better place.”
14. Med shot, security guard
15. Various shots, Grenier lighting switch to turn top of the Empire State Building lit green
16. Med shot, Grenier holding scale model of the ESB
Newly appointed United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador Adrian Grenier today (5 Jun) said that “divisive rhetoric won’t keep us from coming together, in truth and justice, for our planet.”
At a World Environment Day event at UN Headquarters, Grenier said “some people erroneously think that creating walls between our people will keep us safer, that divisions between nations will shield us from the effects of an environmental tragedy such as climate change. But it won’t.”
He said “it is not by pitting one city or country against another, it is about building connections between Pittsburgh and Paris, Palermo to Peshawar to Phuket to Prague to Pretoria. That is how we will get to where we need to go.”
Earlier in the day, at the Empire State Building observation deck, Grenier said he was “sick and tired of the sceptics,” adding that “99 percent of scientists agree climate change is real” and “99 percent of the world are aligned to do something about it.”
He said “the unanimous sentiment is that we need to do something about climate change and do something about man’s effects on the planet.”
After being officially inducted as a United Nations Environment Goodwill Ambassador by Assistant Secretary-General Elliott Harris, Grenier thanked his mother and said it “all starts with good upbringing.”
He added that “from the day I was born she taught me to care about myself and the world outside myself. And it’s the principles that she taught me of health and caring for the planet that have really driven my passion to try to make the world a better place.”
World Environment Day (WED) is marked on 5 June every year. It was first held in 1974,
