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STORY: UN / GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY
TRT: 2.01
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 19 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT 2010, NEW YORK CITY, NEW UN NORTH LAWN BUILDING
1. Wide shot, exterior New UN North Lawn Building
19 SEPTEMBER 2010, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Finish President Tarja Halonen, approach microphone
3. Cutaway, journalist taking notes
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The challenges of 21st. century require vision and fresh thinking; that is why I have invited some of the world’s leading policy makers and thinkers to help us on the key question of sustainability. The panel just had its first meeting to discuss the outlines of its work over the next 15 month by the end of December 2011. I encouraged the panel members to think big; to connect the dots between poverty, energy and food, water, environmental pressure and climate change.”
5. Cutaway, photographer
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The challenge is considerable and extends far beyond time frame for the Millennium Development Goals; for example by 2050 the worlds population will have grown by nearly 50 percent, we’ll have 9 billion people by that time, by the same year 2050 we will need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by fifty percent if we are to keep climate change in check. I call this the 50 50 50 challenge. We will need to provide dignified life for 9 billion people while at the same time preserving the resources and eco systems that sustain us. The panel will report back at the of the year.”
7. Cutaway, cameramen
8. Wide shot, SG leaves microphone behind
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today issued a challenge to the newly-created High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability to find a solution to challenge of lifting people out of poverty while promoting sustainable development.
By 2050, the world's population will have grown by almost 50 per cent, and global greenhouse gas emissions will have to be slashed by half by that year if climate change is to be kept in check, Mr. Ban told reporters after the body's first meeting in New York today.
Calling it the 50-50-50 challenge,” he stressed to reporters that “we will need to provide a dignified life for nine billion people while at the same time preserving the resources and ecosystems that sustain us,” he said.
Last month, the Secretary-General unveiled the 21-member body, which is co-chaired by Finnish President Tarja Halonen and South African President Jacob Zuma.
Mr. Ban reiterated his call today for the Panel to “think big” in drafting a bold but practical blueprint on how countries can promote sustainable development, voicing his “high hopes” for its work.
“The challenge is considerable, and extends far beyond the timeframe for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs),” he said, referring to the eight anti-poverty targets with a 2015 deadline.
During today's meeting, the Panel discussed its work for the next 15 months, and is set to report back at the end of the year. Its recommendations on how to meet the so-called 50-50-50” challenge and other obstacles will feed into preparations on upcoming conferences on development and climate change.
The Panel's final recommendations will be delivered to the Secretary-General at the end of 2011.
It also comprises Gro Harlem Brundtland, Han Seung-soo, Yukio Hatoyama, Luisa Dias Diogo and Kevin Rudd, former prime ministers of Norway, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Mozambique and Australia, respectively, as well as Barbadian Prime Minister David Thompson, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdallah Bin Zayid Al Nahayan, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan, and Switzerland's Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey.
They will be joined by Alexander Bedritsky, Aide to the Russian President on climate change Hajiya Amina Az-Zubair, Adviser for the Nigerian President on the MDGs, Zheng Guogang, Director of the China Meteorological Administration James Laurence Balsillie, Chair of the board of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Susan E. Rice, the United States' Permanent Representative to the UN.
The Panel will be rounded out by current and former environment ministers – Jairam Ramesh of India, Julia Carabias of Mexico and Cristina Narbona Ruiz of Spain – as well as Connie Hedegaard, the European Union's Commissioner for Climate Change and Gunilla Carlsson, Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation.
