CABO VERDE / GUTERRES OCEAN SUMMIT

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23-Jan-2023 00:03:22
On the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde, Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the Ocean Race Summit in Mindelo, saying that “ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win, and by working as one, it’s a race we can win.” UNIFEED

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STORY: CABO VERDE / GUTERRES OCEAN SUMMIT
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DATELINE: 23 JANUARY 2023, MINDELO, CABO VERDE

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1. Wide shot, exterior Campus do Mar
2. Various shots, Secretary-General António Guterres meeting with Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva, National Assembly President Austelino Tavares Correia, and Ocean Race Chairman Richard Brisius
3. Various shots, Guterres signing book
4. Various shots, Brisius, Correia e Silva, Tavares Correia, Guterres and spouse, walking to Ocean Summit venue
5. Wide shot, Guterres at podium
6. Med shot, audience
7. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“In the face of climate change and plastic pollution, humanity has its own race to win. The race to protect our ocean for the future. The ocean supports the air we breathe, the food we consume, the cultures and identities that define us, the jobs and prosperity that sustain us, the regulation of weather and climate, and billions of animals, plants and microorganisms that call the ocean home. The ocean is life. The ocean is livelihoods. And the ocean is in trouble.”
8. Med shot, audience
9. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Toxic chemicals and millions of tons of plastic waste are flooding into coastal ecosystems — killing or injuring fish, sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals, and making their way into the food chain and ultimately being consumed by us. By 2050, there could be more plastic in the sea than fish.”
10. Med shot, cameras
11. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win. And by working as one, it’s a race we can win. Let’s rescue the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 14. Let’s all become the champions the ocean needs. Let’s end the ocean emergency and preserve and value this precious blue gift for our children and grandchildren.”
12. Pan right, audience applauding
13. Zoom in, Brisius handing Ocean Baton to the Secretary-General
14. Pan left, Ocean Summit participants
15. Tilt down, Presidency building
16. Wide shot, honour guard
17. Various shots, Guterres arrival
18. Various shots, Guterres meeting with Cabo Verde President José Maria Neves
19. Various shots, Guterres with UN country team

STORYLINE:

On the last day of his visit to Cabo Verde, Secretary-General António Guterres addressed the Ocean Race Summit in Mindelo, saying that “ending the ocean emergency is a race we must win, and by working as one, it’s a race we can win.”

On the last day of the visit to the country, Guterres met with Prime Minister José Ulisses Correia e Silva and National Assembly President Austelino Tavares Correia, as well as Ocean Race Chairman Richard Brisius before addressing the Summit.

Speaking from the podium at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, in São Vicente, a state-of-the-art facility that hosts large marine scientific equipment such as deep-sea robots, as well as electronics workshops, and cutting-edge laboratories, the Secretary-General said, “the ocean supports the air we breathe, the food we consume, the cultures and identities that define us, the jobs and prosperity that sustain us, the regulation of weather and climate, and billions of animals, plants and microorganisms that call the ocean home. The ocean is life. The ocean is livelihoods. And the ocean is in trouble.”

He said, “toxic chemicals and millions of tons of plastic waste are flooding into coastal ecosystems — killing or injuring fish, sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals, and making their way into the food chain and ultimately being consumed by us. By 2050, there could be more plastic in the sea than fish.”

Guterres said, “Let’s rescue the Sustainable Development Goals, including SDG 14. Let’s all become the champions the ocean needs. Let’s end the ocean emergency and preserve and value this precious blue gift for our children and grandchildren.”

Closing the event, the UN chief participated in a Relay4Nature ceremony, receiving a baton that started travelling around the world almost in May of 2021 to call on world leaders to radically increase their ambitions to protect the seas.

The initiative started with the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thomson, was then passed to politicians like French President Emmanuel Macron, celebrities like Jason Momoa, and arrived in Cabo Verde by boat, all the way from Alicante, in Spain, in the hands of Boris Herrmann, the skipper of Team Malizia.

Guterres handed the Baton to Odara dos Santos Brito, a student from Liceu Jorge Barbosa, in São Vicente.

Before leaving the country, the Secretary-General met with President José Maria Neves

The Ocean Race first set sail in 1973, taking sailors around the world every three or four years.
On Friday night, the country became the first ever West African nation in the competition’s history to host a stopover.
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