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STORY: UN / HUMAN SETTLEMENTS LAUNCH
SOURCE: UNTV/ UNICEF/ MINUSTAH/ WHO / UNHCR
TRT: 2.28
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 12 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
12 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais
3. Med shot, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“We are seeing an unprecedented flux of migration from the rural to the urban areas in the developing world, and of course developing world has all the right to develop. And then urbanization and development go together and of course urbanization and increase of consumption of energy and natural resources also go together. And this is the huge challenge that we need to face.”
5. Med shot, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“Fifteen percent of the population in the developing world is living in zones prone to the risk due the increase of levels of the sea water. This is something that is already presenting risks and associated catastrophes in different parts of the world.”
7. Med shot, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Joan Clos, Executive Director, UN-HABITAT:
“Slums are characterized by being places of unplanned urbanization. That means that slums are placed in the most difficult or risky pieces of land. Then you see that a rain that hardly will cause any problem in a rich city, in a poor city can generate a huge catastrophe.”
9. Med shot, audience
10. Wide shot, dais
FILE - WHO - RECENT, INDIA
11. Zoom out, traffic congestion, cars and motorcycles
FILE – UNICEF -8 APRIL 2011 / ONDANGWA, OSHAKATI, NORTHERN NAMIBIA
12. Various shots, aerial views of flood damage
FILE - UNHCR -10 AUGUST 2010, SUKKUR DISTRICT, SINDH PROVINCE, PAKISTAN
13. Wide shot, aerial view from helicopter o bottles of water being dropped to stranded people
14. Zoom in, stranded people in house seen from helicopter
15. Wide shot, men walking through water
16. Wide shot, mosque in the flooded water
FILE - MINUSTAH - 5 NOVEMBER 2010, LEOGANE, HAITI
17. Wide shot, people watching flooded street
18. Med shot, kids stranded on an isle on flooded street
Announcing the launch of the 2011 Global Report on Human Settlements, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT Joan Clos told reporters today (12 May) that the developing world is “seeing an unprecedented flux of migration from the rural to the urban areas.”
Clos said that the developing world “has all the right to develop,” but this urbanization and development is also bringing about an “increase of consumption of energy and natural resources” and is a “huge challenge that we need to face.”
The report entitled “Cities and Climate Change” reviews the linkages between urbanization and climate change, two of the greatest challenges currently facing humanity in the 21st Century, and whose effects are converging in dangerous ways.
It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change while at the same time highlighting the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations.
Clos noted that “fifteen percent of the population in the developing world is living in zones prone to the risk due the increase of levels of the sea water.”
The report also reviews policy responses, strategies and practices that are emerging in urban areas to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as their potential achievements and constraints.
Speaking about those constraints, Clos observed that a large portion of city dwellers in the developing world are living in slums, and these are characterized “by being places of unplanned urbanization” and located “in the most difficult or risky pieces of land.”
He said that “rain that hardly will cause any problem in a rich city, in a poor city can generate a huge catastrophe.”
The report argues that urban areas have a pivotal role in both climate change mitigation and adaptation and identifies strategies and approaches for strengthening this role.
