6 Jun 2012

UN / BAN RIO+ 20

With just two weeks until the start of a major United Nations sustainable development conference, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged countries to step up efforts to achieve concrete decisions to reduce poverty while promoting clean energy and more sustainable and fair use of resources. UNTV / FILE

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STORY: UN / BAN RIO+ 20   
TRT: 2.46
SOURCE: UNTV / WORLD BANK / UNICEF / IFAD 
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 6 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE 2011, UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

6 JUNE 2012, NEW YORK

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Med shot, Ban Ki-moon arriving to press conference room
4. Cutaway, journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"We need world leaders to make the issues on the table at Rio+20 their own personal priority. Nothing else will do. We live in a world of economic uncertainty, growing inequality and environmental decline."
6. Cutaway, journalists
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"Sustainable energy for all is the golden thread that links development, social inclusion and environmental protection – including addressing the growing threat of climate change."
8. Cutaway, journalists
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"I am cautiously optimistic. I am sure that the member states will act for the interest of human beings, for humanity. This is once in a generation opportunity. Once they miss this opportunity they may have to wait long time." 
10. Cutaway, journalists
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"This planet earth, nature in a sense have been very kind to human beings but we have not been kind to our nature does not wait until we decide negotiations." 
12. Cutaway, journalists
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
"We need to be very practical. This world has a limit in terms of resources. Then we have to use these resources to the best purposes for our future generations and for environmentally hospitable, sustainable world. That's what I'd like to really emphasize."

FILE – UNICEF – 1 FEBRUARY 2012, MORADABAD, INDIA

12. Various shots, city scenes

FILE – UNICEF – 30 JUNE 2011, DAKAR, BANGLADESH

13. Wide shot, traffic on street

FILE – UNICEF – 28-31 JANUARY 2012, ABIJAN, COTE D'IVOIRE

14. Wide shot, child in slum

FILE – UNICEF – 4 MARCH 2006, NAIROBI, KENYA

15. Zoom out, slum buildings

FILE – UNICEF – 12 FEBRUARY 2012, BANGLADESH
 
16. Close up, feet walking in fetid water
17. Med shot, father and child walking in slum

FILE – IFAD – JANUARY 2012, NEAR APODI, RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL

18. Various shots, people collecting water, carrying buckets
19. Various shots, farmer hoeing dry ground
20. Various shots, field with burnt tree stumps
21. Various shots, goats eating on burnt, dry ground

FILE - UNICEF - 13 SEPTEMBER 2011, PAKISTAN

22. Tracking shot, cars driving through flooded road
23. Various shots, people walking on knee-deep water

STORYLINE:

With just two weeks until the start of a major United Nations (UN) sustainable development conference, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today (6 June) urged countries to step up efforts to achieve concrete decisions to reduce poverty while promoting decent jobs, clean energy and a more sustainable and fair use of resources.

"We need world leaders to make the issues on the table at Rio+20 their own personal priority", Ban told a press conference at the UN Headquarters in New York, referring to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) that will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 20 to 22 June.

While noting that 1.4 billion people lived without access to modern sources of energy, Ban said that sustainable energy for all was "the golden thread" that linked development, social inclusion and environmental protection.
 
Negotiators concluded the last round of Rio+20 preparatory talks, focused on the gathering's outcome document, in New York last Saturday (2 June), and they now reached agreement on more than 20 percent of the document, with many additional paragraphs close to agreement.

Following the latest round of negotiations in New York, and with the next and final preparatory talks to be held in Rio de Janeiro from 13 to 15 June, just ahead of the Conference, Ban said he was "cautiously optimistic".

He expressed his confidence that member states would act in the interest of humanity. He added that "this is once in a generation opportunity. Once they miss this opportunity they may have to wait long time".

Noting that nature did not wait while members states negotiated, Ban pointed to the need to be practical. He said, "this world has a limit in terms of resources. Then we have to use these resources to the best purposes for our future generations and for environmentally hospitable, sustainable world that's what I'd like to really emphasize".

More than 100 heads of state and government, along with thousands of parliamentarians, mayors, UN officials, chief executive officers and civil society leaders are expected to attend Rio+20 to shape new policies to promote prosperity, reduce poverty and advance social equity and environmental protection.

The gathering follows on from the Earth Summit in 1992, also held in Rio de Janeiro, during which countries adopted Agenda 21 – a blueprint to rethink economic growth, advance social equity and ensure environmental protection.