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STORY: BELEM / COP30 OPENING
TRT: 02:23
SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC) / UN NEWS
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT EBC ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 09, 10 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
09 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Various shots, exterior, COP30 venue
10 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Wide shot, interior COP30 venue
3. Various shots, musical performance
4. Wide shot, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell walks up to the podium
5. Med shot, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“Ten years ago in Paris, we were designing the future – a future that would clearly see the curve of emissions bend downwards. Colleagues - Welcome to that future.”
7. Wide shot, President Lula and delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“The science is clear: we can and must bring temperatures back down to 1.5C after any temporary overshoot. Lamenting is not a strategy. We need solutions.”
9. Wide shot, conference room
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“We have already agreed that we will transition away from fossil fuels. Now’s the time to focus on how we do it fairly and orderly. Focusing on which deals to strike, to accelerate the tripling of renewables and doubling energy efficiency.”
11. Wide shot, delegates
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC):
“In this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together. Paris is working to deliver real progress. Let’s not forget that. But friends – we must strive valiantly for more. “
13. Various shots, conference room, applause
At the opening plenary of COP30 in Belém, Brazil, today (10 Nov) United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said the Paris Agreement “is working to deliver real progress,” but called on nations to “strive valiantly for more.”
Ten years ago in Paris, Stiell said, "we were designing the future – a future that would clearly see the curve of emissions bend downwards,” adding, “colleagues - Welcome to that future.”
He noted that according to scientists, “we can and must bring temperatures back down to 1.5C after any temporary overshoot,” and said, “lamenting is not a strategy. We need solutions.”
Stiell called for accelerated implementation, and said, “we have already agreed that we will transition away from fossil fuels. Now’s the time to focus on how we do it fairly and orderly. Focusing on which deals to strike, to accelerate the tripling of renewables and doubling energy efficiency.”
He told delegates, “in this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together.”
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) released its latest numbers updating the recent Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) Synthesis report. It shows that new NDCs, including many received in recent days, will reduce emissions by 12 percent in 2035.
The UNFCCC highlighted that every fraction of a degree of heating avoided will save millions of lives and billions of dollars in climate damages.
