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STORY: BAN / CLIMATE LEADER’S SUMMIT
TRT: 2.29
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 11 APRIL 2014, WASHINGTON DC
1. Wide shot, Ban and Lagarde shaking hands
2. Tracking, Ban, Kim and Lagarde walking
3. SOUNDBITE (English), Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General:
“This climate change is a defining issue of our time, and an existential threat to our life and development. We have to address this issue immediately. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its most recent report, has made it quite clear that climate change is happening and approaching much, much faster than one may expect.”
4. Cutaway, voice recorder
5. SOUNDBITE (English), Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General:
“We have two basic purposes: one is to raise political will. I urge the political leaders of the world to prioritize their resources and their political energy on climate change. Second: catalyse actions on the ground. I am inviting all the leaders – business leaders and civil society leaders to address these issues.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English), Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“Taking action now, will no only solve the problem of protecting the planet, but it will be a tremendous boost for economies. We know that climate change will threaten economic growth, especially in the poorest countries, but everywhere, as well.”
7. Cutaway, pan from journalists to speakers
8. SOUNDBITE (English), Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group:
“It’s 165 days before the climate Summit that the Secretary General has called. We have to get serious about bringing real commitment to the table for that Summit in September.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director:
“What fiscal tools they can use, how they can transfer from labour and investment based –that is often used to raise taxes- how they can transfer from that base to a base that is environmental correct. In other words, if you use carbon tax, if you use various tax mechanisms, to raise revenue and reallocate intelligently, you do well for the ecology.”
11. Various shots, Ban speaking at the summit
At the Climate Leader’s Summit in Washington DC, the UN Secretary-General called on Governments to reach a universal legal climate agreement by next year that is both ambitious and achievable.
Ban Ki-moon stressed the need for both political and financial investment to deal with climate change, the single greatest threat to a sustainable future.
Speaking at a press encounter with World Bank pesident Jim Yong Kim and IMF managing director Christine Lagarde, Ban said “this climate change is a defining issue of our time, and an existential threat to our life and development. We have to address this issue immediately.”
He also said “the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its most recent report, has made it quite clear that climate change is happening and approaching much, much faster than one may expect.”
The Secretary-General underlined that the United Nations, the World Bank and the IMF have worked together to address this issue with the full support and engagement of the United Nations Member States.
He stressed that he is going to convene a summit meeting on climate change on September 23rd.
Ban also said “we have two basic purposes: one is to raise political will. I urge the political leaders of the world to prioritize their resources and their political energy on climate change. Second: catalyse actions on the ground. I am inviting all the leaders – business leaders and civil society leaders to address these issues.”
Also speaking to reporters, the World Bank president said “taking action now, will no only solve the problem of protecting the planet, but it will be a tremendous boost for economies.”
Jim Yong Kim added “we know that climate change will threaten economic growth, especially in the poorest countries, but everywhere, as well.”
He also said “it’s 165 days before the climate Summit that the Secretary General has called. We have to get serious about bringing real commitment to the table for that Summit in September.”
The International Monetary Fund managing director noted that the IMF believes that the protection of ecology is an imperative and that the economy can be the right mechanism.
Christine Lagarde explained how finance ministers can do better use of fiscal tools to protect the environment.
She said “what fiscal tools they can use, how they can transfer from labour and investment based –that is often used to raise taxes- how they can transfer from that base to a base that is environmental correct.”
Lagarde added “in other words, if you use carbon tax, if you use various tax mechanisms, to raise revenue and reallocate intelligently, you do well for the ecology.”
