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Before leaving for Copenhagen, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that the world stands at the crossroads between a sustainable future and a path to catastrophe. "Time is running out. There is no time left for posturing or blaming. " UNTV

Duration:01:29Date:14 December 2009

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United Nations Television, ENVIRONMENT, POLLUTION,03.05.00

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STORY: UN / BAN KI-MOON
TRT: 1.29
SOURCE:
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 14 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

SHOTLIST:

RECENT 2009, NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters

14 DECEMBER 2009, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Time is running out. There is no time left for posturing or blaming. Every country must do its part to seal a deal in Copenhagen.”
5. Cutaway, reporters
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“I appeal, especially, to the negotiators working together at this very moment. I appeal to them to redouble their efforts to find the room for compromise to make a final push in this final stretch. If everything is left to leaders to resolve at the last moment, we risk having a weak deal, or no deal at all. And this would be a failure of potentially catastrophic consequence.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Lately, there have been efforts to derail this progress.
Some have tried to claim that the science is unconfirmed. 
They are wrong. The science is clear and settled.  Climate change is real, we are the primary cause, and it is up to us – here and now – to deal with it.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Wide shot, press conference

STORYLINE:

At the start of the most critical week in global efforts to forge a new deal to curb climate change Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today that the world stood at the crossroads between a sustainable future and a path to catastrophe.

“Time is running out”, he told a news conference at United Nations Headquarters in New York ahead of the culmination later this week of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, where some 115 heads of State and government, including the leaders of the world’s top two emitters of greenhouse gases, China and the United States, will gather to hopefully seal the deal on an agreement.

“There is no time left for posturing or blaming. Every country must do its part to seal a deal in Copenhagen.”” he added.

Ban appealed to negotiators to redouble their efforts, find room for compromise and make a final push. “If everything is left to leaders to resolve at the last minute, we risk having a weak deal – or no deal at all. And this would be a failure of potentially catastrophic consequence,” he said.

UN officials have said there are three key layers of action that governments must agree to in the course of the Copenhagen summit: fast and effective implementation of immediate action on climate change; ambitious commitments to cut and limit emissions, including start-up funding and a long-term funding commitment; and a long-term shared vision on a low-emissions future for all.

Ban voiced confidence in a successful outcome as he himself prepares to leave to join the summit, citing new commitments from industrialized countries, emerging economies and developing nations, and deploring recent efforts to derail progress by those who try to claim that the science about climate change is unconfirmed.

“They are wrong. The science is clear and settled. Climate change is real, we are the primary cause, and it is up to us – here and now – to deal with it,” he said. “Greenhouse gases continue to rise. Climate impacts are escalating. Nature does not negotiate. In Copenhagen, we must summon the moral and political will to act in a spirit of compromise and common sense.”

Ban acknowledged that the negotiations were difficult and complex, “among the most ambitious ever to be undertaken by the world community”, and noted the strong passions and hard bargaining under way.

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