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STORY: WORLD BANK / OCEANS
TRT: 2.25
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT WASHINGTON DC / FILE
RECENT 2011, WORLD BANK HEADQUARTERS, WASHINGTON DC
1. Wide shot, exterior World Bank Headquarters
RECENT WASHINGTON DC
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“The world’s oceans are at risk and I think you know many people around the world have taken them for granted. They’re 70 percent of the earth’s surface. But it starts with the fact that about 85 percent of the world’s fish stocks are seriously depleted or well on their way. We have over 400 ‘dead zones’ where life has just stopped. It’s an area about the size of New Zealand. You have coral reefs, which are critical sub ecosystems that feed larger life in the overall oceans, and those have been at risk. For us as a development institution it’s also a core issue because about a billion people in the world depend on fish as their primary source of protein. It’s a key source of jobs whether it be for tourism or for fisheries -- hundreds of millions of jobs depending on this. So what we’re trying to do is to bring the different parties together and to send a signal, the signal of SOS: Save our Seas.
FILE – WORLD BANK – RECENT
3. Wide shot, arial view beach
4. Pan left, beach
5. Wide shot, Waves crashing
6. Med shot, Waves crashing over coral
7. Med shot, Underwater coral
8. Med shot, Underwater fish and coral
RECENT WASHINGTON DC
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert B. Zoellick, President, World Bank:
“The oceans are everybody’s business but no one can do it alone. So you have a number of different participants and some add knowhow and some add the financial resources. And actually there are hundreds of millions of dollars being invested in the world’s oceans. The World Bank - our programs - invests over a billion dollars in oceans issues. But the challenge is how can we coordinate, cooperate more on this; try to set up some models of governance whether it be for fisheries or for pollution. And that’s where I think the World Bank can play a particular role because what we’ve seen in other areas of biodiversity, from tigers to other types of wildlife is that the bank is in a unique position – we’ve got relationships with developing countries and they’re often the core areas. We’ve got the developed countries as our supporters, scientific organizations, research organizations and for the oceans the private sector will be very important because a lot of companies are realizing they can put themselves out of business if they deplete the world’s fisheries. We see this as a catalytic opportunity and what we’ve spent time doing over the past months is working with these groups to try to focus on some key common goals. Something to rally and coordinate the effort around.”
FILE – WORLD BANK – RECENT
10. Med shot, Turtle eating
11. Wide shots, fishermen
12. Close up, fishermen
13. Med shot, Gutting fish
14. Wide shot, underwater fish
World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick will announce on Friday in Singapore an international partnership to save the world’s oceans, citing urgent reports of collapsing fisheries and widening ‘dead zones’ of marine degradation.
Speaking in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Zoellick said that about 85 percent of the world’s fish stocks are seriously depleted and over 400 ‘dead zones’ where life has just stopped.
He said as a development institution, oceans are a core issue, because about a billion people in the world depend on fish as their primary source of protein. Zoellick also said it was a key source of jobs for tourism and fisheries and that “hundreds of millions of jobs” depend on this. “So what we’re trying to do is to bring the different parties together and to send a signal, the signal of SOS: Save our Seas,” he said.
The World Bank invests over a billion dollars in oceans issues. But the challenge he said is how to coordinate and cooperate more, “try to set up some models of governance whether it be for fisheries or for pollution.”
A powerful coalition of governments, international organizations, civil society groups and private interests are joining together under the banner of a Global Partnership for Oceans in Singapore to confront widely documented problems of over-fishing, marine degradation, and habitat loss.
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said the Partnership would bring science, advocacy, the private sector, and international public institutions together to advance mutually agreed goals for healthy and productive oceans.
All the organizations, countries and agencies supporting the Partnership, including the World Bank Group, are already involved in activities to protect the world’s oceans which provide 15percent of the animal protein consumed in the world, millions of jobs, and critical ecosystem services such as climate regulation and carbon storage.
The key step is to mobilize around a set of shared goals. This focus will help coordinate activities and mobilize new financial support, working closely with countries, civil society, and the private sector to reverse patterns of degradation and depletion.
Further discussions will help define the new partnership’s specific agenda. These discussions will address improved governance systems around fishing, more marine protected areas, intensified efforts to attack the sources of ocean pollution and degradation as well as improved coastal management for resilience to weather and climate-related threats.
Heading into the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development in June, ocean health is a key issue. The Global Partnership for Oceans will assist with implementation by supporting countries meeting commitments for improved ocean management.