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STORY: UN / 2024 WARMEST YEAR
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, UN Headquarters
10 JANUARY 2025, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, UN spokesperson, journalists, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The World Meteorological Organization today confirmed that the year that just passed -2024- was the warmest year on record, and that it is at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. This is based on six various international datasets. It also said that the past ten years, from 2015 to 2024, were the ten warmest years on record.”
4. Wide shot, speakers, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General said that today’s assessment makes it clear that global heating is a cold, hard fact, adding that governments must deliver new national climate action plans this year to limit long-term global temperature rise to 1.5°C and support the most vulnerable as well as deal with the devastating climate impacts.”
10. Wide shot, journalists
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) today (10 Jan) confirmed 2024 was the warmest year on record, a UN spokesperson said.
Addressing the press today, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said, “The World Meteorological Organization today confirmed that the year that just passed -2024- was the warmest year on record, and that it is at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial levels. This is based on six various international datasets. It also said that the past ten years, from 2015 to 2024, were the ten warmest years on record.”
He also said, “The Secretary-General said that today’s assessment makes it clear that global heating is a cold, hard fact, adding that governments must deliver new national climate action plans this year to limit long-term global temperature rise to 1.5°C and support the most vulnerable as well as deal with the devastating climate impacts.”
