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STORY: BAKU / COP29 ADVANCER
TRT: 04:05
SOURCE: UNIFEED / COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
1. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“When one looks at where we are in the fight against the climate crisis, the reality is that we are not in a good place. While important progress has been made since the adoption of the Paris Agreement less than a decade ago, the world is still not moving fast enough to limit warming to the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Agreement and prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
3. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“We're seeing many of these impacts accelerate across the world, and no continent, no country nor region has been spared.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
5. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“In addition, as we see the pace of the transition accelerate, it is doing so in a very unequal way. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, four out of every $5 in clean energy was invested in the advanced economies and China. The rest of the world, sadly, is being left behind.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
7. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“And if we continue at this rate, the climate crisis will definitely exacerbate inequalities between countries and within countries.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
9. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“COP29 represents an important milestone in our fight against the climate crisis. It is a COP where the main negotiating outcome will be a new goal on finance, a new climate finance goal.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
11. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“The reality is no one country, no one group of country can solve the climate crisis. We need everyone to make an extra effort.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
13. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“The leadership of the G20 will be crucial. We need all G20 countries really to be on the high end of the ambition scale when they submit their new national climate plans.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
15. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“Countries are currently spending nine times more to make fossil fuels cheaper than cleaner alternatives. Nine times more. So, taxpayers are subsidizing, taxpayers across the world are subsidizing fossil fuels, but also footing the bill for the climate damage that the use of fossil fuels is causing.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
17. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“There's always skepticism around big international UN meetings, but the reality is that the that multilateral cooperation on climate through these COPs has really ensured that the issues of climate change have risen to the top of the global agenda.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
19. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
30 OCTOBER 2024, NEW YORK CITY
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, United Nations:
“I urge you to use this as a moment to demonstrate your solidarity with those on the front lines of the climate crisis more than ever. This is the moment. Use this moment to rebuild trust and we and rebuild hope that we can truly solve this crisis.”
FILE – PLEASE CREDIT COP29 AZERBAIJAN OPERATING COMPANY - BAKU, AZERBAIJAN
21. Aerial shot, Baku Stadium
On 11 November, delegates from around the world will convene at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, for two weeks of crucial negotiations, dynamic discussions and global collaboration, all focused on tackling the climate crisis with urgency and ambition.
In an interview in New York, Selwin Charles Hart, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, said, “When one looks at where we are in the fight against the climate crisis, the reality is that we are not in a good place. While important progress has been made since the adoption of the Paris Agreement less than a decade ago, the world is still not moving fast enough to limit warming to the 1.5-degree goal of the Paris Agreement and prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis.”
He continued, “We're seeing many of these impacts accelerate across the world, and no continent, no country nor region has been spared.”
He added, “As we see the pace of the transition accelerate, it is doing so in a very unequal way. Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement, four out of every $5 in clean energy was invested in the advanced economies and China. The rest of the world, sadly, is being left behind.”
He stated, “And if we continue at this rate, the climate crisis will definitely exacerbate inequalities between countries and within countries.”
He also said, “COP29 represents an important milestone in our fight against the climate crisis. It is a COP where the main negotiating outcome will be a new goal on finance, a new climate finance goal.”
He stressed, “The reality is no one country, no one group of country can solve the climate crisis. We need everyone to make an extra effort.”
Hart said, “The leadership of the G20 will be crucial. We need all G20 countries really to be on the high end of the ambition scale when they submit their new national climate plans.”
He noticed, “Countries are currently spending nine times more to make fossil fuels cheaper than cleaner alternatives. Nine times more. So, taxpayers are subsidizing, taxpayers across the world are subsidizing fossil fuels, but also footing the bill for the climate damage that the use of fossil fuels is causing.”
He said, “There's always skepticism around big international UN meetings, but the reality is that the that multilateral cooperation on climate through these COPs has really ensured that the issues of climate change have risen to the top of the global agenda.”
He then urged major shareholders to use “this as a moment to demonstrate your solidarity with those on the front lines of the climate crisis more than ever. This is the moment. Use this moment to rebuild trust and we and rebuild hope that we can truly solve this crisis.”
