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STORY: RIO DE JANEIRO / G20 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENERGY TRANSITION
TRT: 2:24
SOURCE: COURTESY OF EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO
RESTRICTIONS : NONE
LANGAUGE : ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE : 19 NOVEMBER 2024, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
1. Various shots, conference room
2. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, spiraling disasters will devastate every economy. Current policies would take us over three degrees. That means catastrophe. We must get on track for the 1.5 degree limit with countries accelerating their near-term emissions cuts, so that we can reduce global emissions by nine per cent every year this decade.”
3. Various shots, conference room
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“So we must speed-up the just transition from fossil fuels to renewables. They are now the cheapest source of new electricity virtually everywhere. The end of the fossil fuel age is inevitable. Let’s make sure it does not come too late – and that it comes with justice.”
5. Wide shot, conference room
6. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The next round of national climate action plans is essential to putting the world on the right path. The G20, as President Lula said, is responsible for 80 per cent of global emissions. So we need you out front.”
7. Wide shot, conference room
8. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I ask you to instruct your ministers and negotiators to make sure they agree on a new ambitious climate finance goal this year. Failure is not an option. It might compromise the ambition in the preparation of the new national climate action plans, with potential devastating impacts as irreversible tipping points are getting closer. The preservation of the Amazon is a case in point. It would inevitably also make the success of COP30 in Brazil much more difficult. We must succeed in Baku, build trust and incentivise the preparation of high ambition national climate plans next year.”
9. Wide shot, conference room
Secretary-General António Guterres told G20 leaders that the climate is at a breaking point, “unless we limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, spiraling disasters will devastate every economy.
The UN chief addressed a G20 session on Sustainable Development and Energy Transition today (19 Nov) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Guterres stressed that we must get on track for the 1.5-degree limit, with countries accelerating their near-term emissions cuts. “That way, we can reduce global emissions by nine per cent every year this decade,” he said.
The Secretary-General noted that the next round of national climate action plans is essential to putting the world on the right path. In relation to COP29, he asked countries to instruct ministers and negotiators to agree on a new ambitious climate finance goal this year.
“Failure is not an option,” the Secretary-General warned that “this would inevitably make the success of COP30 in Brazil more difficult.”
The Secretary-General will head off back to Baku, Azerbaijan, where he will be at the closing of the CPO29 conference which is still going on.
