8 Sep 2011

AUSTRALIA / BAN WRAP

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spent the last day of his Pacific trip in Sydney and Canberra where he gave a speech at the University of Sydney in which he said time was running out to tackle climate change and that a revolution of hope was under way in the Middle East and North Africa. He also visited the National Arboretum and the Australian Federal Police Facility. UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY/ ACT GOVERNMENT AUSTRALIA / AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE

Posted at: September 8, 2011 4:29 pm

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STORY: AUSTRALIA / BAN WRAP
TRT: 3:02
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, ACT GOVERNMENT AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 8 SEPTEMBER 2011, SYDNEY / CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA

SHOTLIST:

8 SEPTEMBER 2011, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

1. Wide shot, Sydney University hall
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
 "Across North Africa and beyond, a revolution of hope has taken hold. The people of Libya and beyond have taken great risks to assert their basic freedoms and human rights.  Now they need us to support these democratic transitions. I want to thank Australia for being one of the world's leading donors of humanitarian assistance to the people of Libya."  
3. Cutaway, audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"We are running out of time. In the first fifty years of this century, the population will increase by 50 percent and global emissions will need to decrease by 50 percent.  This is what I call the 50 - 50 - 50 challenge. Climate change is showing that the old model is not only dated, it is dangerous. We cannot burn our way to the future."
5. Med shot, Ban receiving a rugby sweatshirt

8 SEPTEMBER 2011, CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA

6. Wide shot, Canberra arboretum
7. Med shot, Ban arriving
8. Cutaway, photographers
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"United Nations is committed to make this world, this planet greener and greener. We are planting one billion trees in a year." 
10. Med shot, tree planting
11. Zoom out, tree sign
12. Med shot, Ban and his wife meeting children
13. Wide shot, Ban arriving at Australian Federal Police International Deployment Facility
14. Med shot, Ban meeting police
15. Wide shot, meeting room
SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I know that Australia has paid a heavy price for its tremendous contribution over the years. Eight uniformed Australians died while serving in peacekeeping operations. Their lives were far too short but their impact was great and enduring."
Wide shot, group photo

STORYLINE:

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrapped up his four-nation trip to the South Pacific today (8 Sept) with visits to Sydney University, the national arboretum and the Australian Police International Deployment facility.

Addressing students and other members of the academic community at Sydney University, Ban thanked "Australia for being one of the world's leading donors of humanitarian assistance to the people of Libya."

Ban, who is due back in New York tomorrow, attended the International Conference in Support of the New Libya which was hosted by President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom before arriving in Australia on 3 September.

Ban later travelled to the capital, Canberra, where he participated in a tree-planting event at the National Arboretum with young school children in an area that was burned out by a major fire in 2003.
 
"The United Nations is committed to make this world, this planet greener and greener," he said, highlighting the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) campaign that aims to have at least one billion trees planted worldwide each year. Ban planted an olive tree, both as a symbol of peace and because it helps to cut greenhouse gas emissions which lead to global warming.

Ban also visited the Australian Federal Police's training school for police being deployed to international peacekeeping missions, and watched a training exercise in which police cadets played the part of rioters in a mock-Pacific Island village.

Australia was the first country to contribute troops to a UN peacekeeping mission, and since then has contributed to the cause of peace in countries ranging from Cambodia to Cyprus to Afghanistan.

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