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STORY: DUBAI / COP28 HUMANITARIAN AND CLIMATE CRISES
TRT: 04:11
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FAO / WFP / OCHA
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR CREDITS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
FILE - DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1. Med shot, COP28 venue
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“The climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis. We've seen around the world a huge increase in the last 20 years and an 800 percent increase in climate-related humanitarian appeals. That means people in vulnerable communities are being impacted much more now by droughts, by floods, by extreme heat, by wildfires, by severe storms. And this is driving major new humanitarian needs.”
PLEASE CREDIT FAO ON SCREEN- NOVEMBER 2022, PUNJAB, INDIA
3. Various shots, field burning
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“Climate change is making severe weather events much more frequent and much stronger. So that means that people in vulnerable communities are having to cope with hurricanes, with floods, with droughts, with severe storms far more than they did in the past. And these things are not just happening every few years, but in many cases now every year or far more frequently than they were in the past. So, climate change is a major driver of humanitarian needs, and we need to scale up both our humanitarian response and our investments in adaptation so that people can be resilient.”
PLEASE CREDIT WFP ON SCREEN - 17 NOVEMBER 2023, MAHADAY, SOMALIA
5. Aerial shot, flooding, Alle Suge camp
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“OCHA is the coordinator of Global Humanitarian Response, so, we have a responsibility to be engaging to help alleviate the climate crisis. We're doing this in three distinct ways. One of them operationally: OCHA is working on the ground in emergencies to coordinate humanitarian actors. We need to do much more to be building on climate science and data, to be predicting when and where people will be impacted, and to be acting before disasters. We're working much more to scale up our response based on forecasts in anticipation of disaster, of disasters so that communities can be prepared and avoid the worst impacts.”
PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN - MAY 2023, GOUBEY DOSSO REGION, NIGER
7. Aerial shot, garden reclaimed from arid lands through reforestation by NGO Garuka in partnership with WFP
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“OCHA is also engaged in climate finance, and one of the things we want to make sure that we're doing is using our pooled fund for funding instruments both at the global level and at the country level to scale up the support to people to respond to the climate crisis. But we also want to make sure that we understand that there's no humanitarian solution to climate change. These communities need longer-term investments in transformational adaptation.”
PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN – 5 NOVEMBER 2022, NIGERIA
9. Wide shot, major destroyed roads from Bayelsa to the River State capital
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
“Civil society and local responders who are dealing with climate-related emergencies. They have an important voice that needs to be heard in the intergovernmental process.”
PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN – 9 MAY 2023, BUNDA WEYN VILLAGE, BELET WEYNE DISTRICT, HIRAAN REGION, HIRSHABELLE STATE, SOMALIA
11. Wide shot, flooded streets
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“We don't want to just be dealing with the impacts of climate change. We need to have very fast and very radical reductions in carbon emissions so that global warming slows and ultimately stops, so we can minimize these impacts. We're not going to be able to deal with the humanitarian impacts of runaway climate change at 2 and a half to 3 degrees. We need to limit global warming to 1 and a half degrees.”
PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN - 22 OCTOBER 2023, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
13. Wide shot, floods
04 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Greg Puley, Head, Climate Team, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA):
“But the most important solution, the most important solution is to reduce emissions radically so that we don't have to deal with the worst impacts of what's coming. That's the most important point. Secondly, we need to really scale up investments in climate adaptation to support the people who are most vulnerable. They're the people who did the least to cause this crisis; they are the least responsible, but they're feeling the impacts the worst and the first. It's an injustice. It needs to be remedied through radical steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also major new investments that get to the community level that can build people's resilience to these weather-related disasters.”
PLEASE CREDIT OCHA ON SCREEN- 22 OCTOBER 2023, BAIDOA, SOMALIA
15. Close up, people cross stagnant water, IDP camp
Greg Puley, head of the UN Humanitarian Affairs Office's (OCHA) Climate Team, said, “The climate crisis is also a humanitarian crisis.”
In an interview during COP28 in Dubai, Puley also said, “We've seen around the world a huge increase in the last 20 years and an 800 percent increase in climate-related humanitarian appeals. That means people in vulnerable communities are being impacted much more now by droughts, by floods, by extreme heat, by wildfires, by severe storms. And this is driving major new humanitarian needs.”
He continued, “Climate change is making severe weather events much more frequent and much stronger. So that means that people in vulnerable communities are having to cope with hurricanes, with floods, with droughts, with severe storms far more than they did in the past. And these things are not just happening every few years, but in many cases now every year or far more frequently than they were in the past. So, climate change is a major driver of humanitarian needs, and we need to scale up both our humanitarian response and our investments in adaptation so that people can be resilient.”
He explained, “OCHA is the coordinator of Global Humanitarian Response, so, we have a responsibility to be engaging to help alleviate the climate crisis. We're doing this in three distinct ways. One of them operationally: OCHA is working on the ground in emergencies to coordinate humanitarian actors. We need to do much more to be building on climate science and data, to be predicting when and where people will be impacted, and to be acting before disasters. We're working much more to scale up our response based on forecasts in anticipation of disaster, of disasters so that communities can be prepared and avoid the worst impacts.”
He added, “OCHA is also engaged in climate finance, and one of the things we want to make sure that we're doing is using our pooled fund for funding instruments both at the global level and at the country level to scale up the support to people to respond to the climate crisis.”
He stressed, “But we also want to make sure that we understand that there's no humanitarian solution to climate change. These communities need longer-term investments in transformational adaptation.”
According to the head of OCHA’s Climate Team, “Civil society and local responders who are dealing with climate-related emergencies. They have an important voice that needs to be heard in the intergovernmental process.”
He stressed, “We don't want to just be dealing with the impacts of climate change. We need to have very fast and very radical reductions in carbon emissions so that global warming slows and ultimately stops, so we can minimize these impacts. We're not going to be able to deal with the humanitarian impacts of runaway climate change at 2 and a half to 3 degrees. We need to limit global warming to 1 and a half degrees.”
He concluded, “The most important solution is to reduce emissions radically so that we don't have to deal with the worst impacts of what's coming. That's the most important point. Secondly, we need to really scale up investments in climate adaptation to support the people who are most vulnerable. They're the people who did the least to cause this crisis; they are the least responsible, but they're feeling the impacts the worst and the first. It's an injustice. It needs to be remedied through radical steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also major new investments that get to the community level that can build people's resilience to these weather-related disasters.”
OCHA and the Inter-Agency Standing Committee have established a Humanitarian Hub - the first ever - at COP28.
The Hub is hosting over 40 events organized with the support of dozens of entities, including local and international humanitarian partners, academics, the private sector, and governments.
The Hub aims to showcase how climate-related disasters affect people in crisis situations and solutions, especially at the local level.