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STORY: BELEM / COP30 GUTERRES PRESSER
TRT: 04:22
SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC)
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT EBC ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / PORTUGUESE / NATS
DATELINE: 20 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL / FILE
FILE - BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Aerial shot, COP30 venue
20 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres at the podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We are down to the wire, and the world is watching Belém. Communities on the frontlines are watching too – counting flooded homes, failed harvests, lost livelihoods, and asking: how much more must we suffer? They have heard enough excuses. They demand results.”
4. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
5. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“A temporary overshoot above 1.5 degrees – starting at the latest in the early 2030s – has become inevitable. We know what that means; more heat and hunger; more disasters and displacement; and a higher risk of crossing climate tipping points – unleashing irreversible damage, including here in the Amazon. But we can still bend temperatures back below 1.5 degrees before the end of this century if we act now to make this overshoot as small, short, and safe as possible.”
6. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“No delegation will leave Belém with everything it wants. But every delegation has a duty to reach a balanced deal. First, on protecting people. For millions, adaptation is not an abstract goal. It is the difference between rebuilding and being swept away; between replanting and starving; between staying on ancestral land or losing it forever.”
8. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We must move much faster, with a drastic cut on emissions. The renewables revolution makes it possible. Clean energy has never been cheaper and more abundant; powering growth; and shielding households and economies from volatile fossil fuel markets. With the right support, it is essential that most countries peak emissions now, slash them in half this decade, hit net-zero by 2050, and go net-negative after.”
10. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“We need a credible path to realizing the Baku Finance Goal, with developed countries leading to mobilize at least 300 billion US dollars by 2035 each year, and a clear route to reaching 1.3 trillion US dollars per year by 2035. Simpler rules must allow vulnerable countries to get support quickly.”
12. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
13. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“One of the essential problems regarding the level of emissions we have is the fact that fossil fuels account for 80 percent of emissions. Therefore, there is no solution to the problems if there is not simultaneously a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies.”
14. Wide shot, Guterres at the podium
15. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I think this is not the moment to talk about the possible failure of the COP. It is the moment to guarantee that failure doesn’t occur. And so, I am perfectly convinced that a compromise is possible, that take into account, as I mentioned, the legitimate concerns of adaptation and the legitimate concerns of mitigation, which of course, includes the necessity of taking into account the question of fossil fuels as it was done in the Dubai’s Summit, COP.”
16. Wide shot, end of presser
As climate negotiations are set to conclude this week in Belém, Brazil, Secretary-General António Guterres today (20 Nov) said, “we are down to the wire, and the world is watching Belém,” adding that communities on the frontlines “have heard enough excuses. They demand results.”
Talking to reporters in Belém in the final days of COP30, Guterres said, “a temporary overshoot above 1.5 degrees – starting at the latest in the early 2030s – has become inevitable. We know what that means; more heat and hunger; more disasters and displacement; and a higher risk of crossing climate tipping points – unleashing irreversible damage, including here in the Amazon. But we can still bend temperatures back below 1.5 degrees before the end of this century if we act now to make this overshoot as small, short, and safe as possible.”
He said, “no delegation will leave Belém with everything it wants. But every delegation has a duty to reach a balanced deal.”
Highlighting priorities, the Secretary-General said, “for millions, adaptation is not an abstract goal. It is the difference between rebuilding and being swept away; between replanting and starving; between staying on ancestral land or losing it forever.”
On cutting emissions, he said “we must move much faster,” noting that “the renewables revolution makes it possible” as “clean energy has never been cheaper and more abundant; powering growth; and shielding households and economies from volatile fossil fuel markets.”
On climate finance, Guterres said, “we need a credible path to realizing the Baku Finance Goal, with developed countries leading to mobilize at least 300 billion US dollars by 2035 each year, and a clear route to reaching 1.3 trillion US dollars per year by 2035. Simpler rules must allow vulnerable countries to get support quickly.”
Responding to a journalist’s question, he said, “one of the essential problems regarding the level of emissions we have is the fact that fossil fuels account for 80 percent of emissions. Therefore, there is no solution to the problems if there is not simultaneously a just transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies.”
Also during the Q and A, the Secretary-General said, “this is not the moment to talk about the possible failure of the COP. It is the moment to guarantee that failure doesn’t occur. And so, I am perfectly convinced that a compromise is possible, that take into account, as I mentioned, the legitimate concerns of adaptation and the legitimate concerns of mitigation, which of course, includes the necessity of taking into account the question of fossil fuels as it was done in the Dubai’s Summit, COP.”
With less than 48 hours until the end of the COP30, negotiations continue with the aim of finding consensus.
