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STORY: DUBAI / COP28 CLOSING
TRT: 03:51
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES / FILE
FILE - DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1. Wide shot, COP28 venue
13 DECEMBER 2023, DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
2. Various shots, plenary
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, COP28 President / Special Envoy for Climate Change, United Arab Emirates (UAE):
“I invite the CMA to adopt the draft decision entitled Outcome of the first Global Stocktake content and document of the Policy. Slash V slash CMA slash 2023 slash Elle dot 17 hitting no objection it is so decided.”
4. Various shots, delegate’s applause
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, COP28 President / Special Envoy for Climate Change, United Arab Emirates (UAE):
“We have language on fossil fuel in our final agreement for the first time ever.”
6. Med shot, participants
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“There will be reams of analysis of all the initiatives announced here in Dubai. They are a climate-action lifeline, not a finish line. Now, all governments and businesses need to turn these pledges into real-economy outcomes without delay.
8. Wide shot, UNFCC Executive Secretary at podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“COP28 also needed to signal a hard stop to humanity’s core climate problem - fossil fuels and their planet-burning pollution. Whilst we didn’t fully turn the page on the fossil fuel era in Dubai, this outcome is clearly the beginning of the end.”
10. Med shot, participant
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“The Global stocktake showed us clearly that progress is not fast enough, but undeniably, it is gathering pace. I firmly believe that this is because the political and economic logic is increasingly insurmountable: Human lives in huge numbers are being lost in every country, while fossil fuels hit household budgets and national budgets alike.”
12. Wide shot, UNFCC Executive Secretary at podium
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Rasmussen, Lead Negotiator, Samoa, Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS):
“We must leave here with a set of decisions that meet the magnitude of the climate crisis, that meet the expectations that the world has of us, and that meet what is needed to secure the future of the coming generations.”
14. Wide shot, delegate’s applause
15. Various shots, gavel, applauses, plenary room
16. Wide shot, UNFCC Executive at stakeout
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“Progress has been made, tripling renewables and doubling energy efficiency, operationalized in the Loss and damage fund and making an initial, an initial, down payment on a framework for the global goals on adaptation.”
18. Close up, camera, camera operator
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“We needed a green light. We've got an amber light. So, there is still a great deal of work to be done, but there are paths forward. There are signals, very, very clear signals for how we must move forward.”
20. Wide shot, UNFCC Executive at stakeout
Nations at COP28 in Dubai approved earlier today (13 Dec) a roadmap for transitioning away from fossil fuels – a first for a UN climate conference – but the deal still stopped short of a long-demanded call for a phaseout of oil, coal, and gas.
COP28 had been scheduled to close on Tuesday, but intense overnight negotiations over whether the outcome would include a call to “phasedown” or “phaseout” planet heating fossil fuels like oil, gas, and coal – the main sticking point which pit activists, and climate-vulnerable countries against some larger nations – forced the conference into overtime.
The negotiators at COP28 also agreed on commitments to triple renewables capacity and double energy efficiency by 2030 and made progress in adaptation and finance.
Other progress was also made in adaptation and finance– including the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund.
UN climate chief Simon Stiell said the initiatives announced in Dubai are “a climate action lifeline, not a finish line.”
Stiell also said the Global Stocktake – which aims to help nations align their national climate plans with the Paris Agreement – had revealed that progress is not fast enough but is “undeniably” gathering pace.
Addressing reporters outside the main hall, Stiell said, “We needed a green light. We've got an amber light. So, there is still a great deal of work to be done, but there are paths forward. There are signals, very, very clear signals for how we must move forward.”
Despite multiple rounds of applause inside the plenary, not all delegations were pleased with the outcome of the climate talks.
Anne Rasmussen, the Samoan representative and lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), said, “We must leave here with a set of decisions that meet the magnitude of the climate crisis, that meet the expectations that the world has of us, and that meet what is needed to secure the future of the coming generations.”
