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STORY: UN / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SOURCE: UNTV
TRT: 1.15
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ NATS
DATELINE: 13 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY/ FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN building
13 MAY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, conference room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“We don’t have a moment to lose. Of course, we cannot control the clock. But it is in our power to pursue a development path that takes a more balanced and sustainable approach to the world’s resources. The choice is ours.”
4. Wide shot, panelists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General:
“At Rio, our vision must be clear: a sustainable green economy that protects the health of the environment while supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals through growth in income, decent work and poverty eradication. We must also create an enhanced architecture for sustainable development governance at the national, regional and international levels. This is critical to advancing sustainable development. Our watchwords must be implementation and action.”
6. Pan left, audience applause
Speaking at a meeting on sustainable development at United Nations (UN) Headquarters today (13 May), Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed for “a development path that takes a more balanced and sustainable approach to the world’s resources.”
This year's session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD 19) focuses on issues such as are transportation, chemicals, waste management, mining and a ten-year framework of sustainable consumption and production patterns.
The Secretary-General said that at next month’s Rio + 20 Conference the UN’s vision “must be clear,” advocating a “sustainable green economy that protects the health of the environment while supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.”
He added that an “enhanced architecture for sustainable development governance” must be created at the national, regional and international levels, and said that the watchwords must be “implementation and action.”
The Rio + 20 Conference will take place in Brazil on 4-6 June 2012 to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), in Rio de Janeiro. It is envisaged as a Conference at the highest possible level, including Heads of State and Government.
