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STORY: GA / BAN ACTION AGENDA
TRT: 2.52
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 25 JANUARY 2011, NEW YORK CITY
RECENT, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NYC
1. Wide shot, exterior North Lawn Building
2. Wide shot, Ban walks into Conference room
3. Wide shot, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Environmental, economic and social indicators tell us that our current model of progress is unsustainable. Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance to adjust our course. That is why I placed this challenge at the top of the list.”
5. Cutaway, audience
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In the next five years, we will wipe out five of the world’s major killers. We will end deaths from malaria, polio, new paediatric HIV infections and maternal and neonatal tetanus. And we will reduce measles mortality by 95 per cent. We will also fully implement the global strategy on women’s and children’s health to save tens of millions of lives, including by providing reproductive health services. We will also tackle extreme poverty and hunger.”
7. Cutaway, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
Mother Nature will not wait while we negotiate. Over the next five years we must facilitate mitigation and adaptation action on the ground, including on REDD+. We must operationalize the Green Climate Fund and set public and private funds on a trajectory to reach the agreed $100 billion by 2020. I will also work with Member States to promote evidence-based policy. We need to act on the scientific facts. Finally, I am announcing today that we will work with Member States to make Antarctica a World Nature Preserve.”
9. Cutaway, audience
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The era of impunity is dead. We have entered a new age of accountability. We will extend the reach of the International Criminal Court and carve out a new dimension for the emerging doctrine of the responsibility to protect.”
11. Various shots, audience applauds
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined a series of actions he believes the global community must take over the next five years to build “the future we want.”
In a speech to the General Assembly last September Ban presented five imperatives – or generational opportunities – that must be addressed to ensure a better future for the world’s people.
These are sustainable development; preventing and mitigating conflicts, human rights abuses and the impacts of natural disasters; building a safer and more secure world; supporting countries in transition; and working to engage the talents of women and young people.
Ban said that sustainable development offered “the best chance to adjust our course. That is why I placed this challenge at the top of the list.”
The “action agenda” presented today describes specific measures regarding each of the five imperatives, including an unprecedented campaign to wipe out five of the world’s major killers, malaria, polio, paediatric HIV infections, maternal and neonatal tetanus, and measles.
Ban also said that he would fully implement the global strategy on women’s and children’s health to save tens of millions of lives, including providing reproductive health services. “We will also tackle extreme poverty and hunger,” he added.
Ban also announced that the UN will work with Member States to make Antarctica a World Nature Preserve and that he will appoint a new special representative for youth.
Stressing that “the era of impunity is dead”, Ban said that the organization would extend the reach of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
