MONTREAL / BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE OPENING
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STORY: MONTREAL / BIODIVERSITY CONFERENCE OPENING
TRT: 3:24
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 DECEMBER 2022, MONTREAL, CANADA
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, exterior, COP15 venue
2. Wide shot, audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Multinational corporations are filling their bank accounts while emptying our world of its natural gifts. Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet. And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy. Because the loss of nature and biodiversity comes with a steep human cost.”
4. Med shot, audience
5.SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“This Conference is our chance to stop this orgy of destruction. To move from discord to harmony. And to apply the ambition and action the challenge demands.We need nothing less from this meeting than a bold post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. One that beats back the biodiversity apocalypse by urgently tackling its drivers — land and sea-use change, over exploitation of species, climate change, pollution and invasive non- native species.”
6. Med shot, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“And one with clear targets, benchmarks and accountability. No excuses. No delays. Promises made must be promises kept.”
8. Wide shot, participants in the audience
9. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is up to us to accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and take action to fix it. The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B. We must fix the world we have. We must cherish this wonderous gift. We must make peace with nature. I urge you to do the right thing. Step up for nature. Step up for biodiversity. Step up for humanity.”
10. Close up, audience applauding
11. Wide shot, Silla, Inuit throat singing duo, performing
12. Wide shot, audience applauding
13. Med shot, Theland Kicknosway, traditional singer, drummer, dancer and social media influencer from the Potawatomi and Cree Nation, performing
STORYLINE:
Opening the UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General said that “the deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B.”
For António Guterres, “It is up to us to accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and take action to fix it.”
The UN chief added that “we must fix the world we have” and “we must cherish this wonderous gift.”
“We must make peace with nature. I urge you to do the right thing,” Guterres added.
The Secretary-General said that “multinational corporations are filling their bank accounts while emptying our world of its natural gifts” and “ecosystems have become playthings of profit.”
According to Guterres, “with our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction.”
“We are treating nature like a toilet. And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy,” said the UN chief.
Asking for a “bold” post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Guterres said it need to beat back “the biodiversity apocalypse by urgently tackling its drivers — land and sea-use change, over exploitation of species, climate change, pollution and invasive non- native species.”
For the Secretary-General, the new Framework should also have “clear targets, benchmarks and accountability.”
“No excuses. No delays. Promises made must be promises kept,” concluded Guterres.
During the event, negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
The conference is being billed as a major biodiversity COP, because it is expected to lead to the adoption of a new Global Biodiversity Framework, guiding actions worldwide through 2030, to preserve and protect our natural resources.
The delegates and organizers will be hoping that this framework will have a more lasting impact than the previous version: at COP10, in 2010, governments agreed to strive for ambitious targets by 2020, including halving natural habitat loss, and implementing plans for sustainable consumption and production.
However, a UN report released that year, showed that not a single target had been fully met. Meanwhile, the planet is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaur era ended: one million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction.
TRT: 3:24
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / FRENCH / NATS
DATELINE: 06 DECEMBER 2022, MONTREAL, CANADA
SHOTLIST:
1. Wide shot, exterior, COP15 venue
2. Wide shot, audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“Multinational corporations are filling their bank accounts while emptying our world of its natural gifts. Ecosystems have become playthings of profit. With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction. We are treating nature like a toilet. And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy. Because the loss of nature and biodiversity comes with a steep human cost.”
4. Med shot, audience
5.SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“This Conference is our chance to stop this orgy of destruction. To move from discord to harmony. And to apply the ambition and action the challenge demands.We need nothing less from this meeting than a bold post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. One that beats back the biodiversity apocalypse by urgently tackling its drivers — land and sea-use change, over exploitation of species, climate change, pollution and invasive non- native species.”
6. Med shot, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“And one with clear targets, benchmarks and accountability. No excuses. No delays. Promises made must be promises kept.”
8. Wide shot, participants in the audience
9. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General:
“It is up to us to accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and take action to fix it. The deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B. We must fix the world we have. We must cherish this wonderous gift. We must make peace with nature. I urge you to do the right thing. Step up for nature. Step up for biodiversity. Step up for humanity.”
10. Close up, audience applauding
11. Wide shot, Silla, Inuit throat singing duo, performing
12. Wide shot, audience applauding
13. Med shot, Theland Kicknosway, traditional singer, drummer, dancer and social media influencer from the Potawatomi and Cree Nation, performing
STORYLINE:
Opening the UN’s key biodiversity conference, COP15, in Montreal, Canada, on Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General said that “the deluded dreams of billionaires aside, there is no Planet B.”
For António Guterres, “It is up to us to accept responsibility for the damage we have caused, and take action to fix it.”
The UN chief added that “we must fix the world we have” and “we must cherish this wonderous gift.”
“We must make peace with nature. I urge you to do the right thing,” Guterres added.
The Secretary-General said that “multinational corporations are filling their bank accounts while emptying our world of its natural gifts” and “ecosystems have become playthings of profit.”
According to Guterres, “with our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction.”
“We are treating nature like a toilet. And ultimately, we are committing suicide by proxy,” said the UN chief.
Asking for a “bold” post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, Guterres said it need to beat back “the biodiversity apocalypse by urgently tackling its drivers — land and sea-use change, over exploitation of species, climate change, pollution and invasive non- native species.”
For the Secretary-General, the new Framework should also have “clear targets, benchmarks and accountability.”
“No excuses. No delays. Promises made must be promises kept,” concluded Guterres.
During the event, negotiators will set new targets and goals aimed at arresting the alarming destruction of nature, due by human activity.
The conference is being billed as a major biodiversity COP, because it is expected to lead to the adoption of a new Global Biodiversity Framework, guiding actions worldwide through 2030, to preserve and protect our natural resources.
The delegates and organizers will be hoping that this framework will have a more lasting impact than the previous version: at COP10, in 2010, governments agreed to strive for ambitious targets by 2020, including halving natural habitat loss, and implementing plans for sustainable consumption and production.
However, a UN report released that year, showed that not a single target had been fully met. Meanwhile, the planet is experiencing its largest loss of life since the dinosaur era ended: one million plant and animal species are now threatened with extinction.
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