UN / WATER EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
23-Mar-2023
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“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach 100 percent coverage of early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place and we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems,” said Professor Petteri Taalas, WMO’s Secretary-General. UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / WATER EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 - 23 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
TRT: 02:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 22 - 23 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
SHOTLIST
22 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exteriors, United Nations headquarters
23 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofia Borges, Senior Vice President, UN Foundation:
“This event is particularly timely as today we are celebrating the World Meteorological day. It's the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Secretary General's call for action to ensure every person is protected by multi hazard warnings systems by 2027.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Petteri Taalas, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
“WMO and IPCC have just released the most recent reports and we have shown that all of the climate indicators are negative. We have seen an increase of melting of glaciers, sea level rise as more than doubled. We have broken records in the main greenhouse gas concentrations carbon dioxide.”
6. Med shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Petteri Taalas, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach100 percent coverage, early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place. And we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems. And once you do not have the basic observing systems, the quality of the forecast is automatically poor. We say that if you go junk in your forecast models, you're getting junk out and that's where we where we are.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Selvin Hart, Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, United Nations:
“In response to this report, the Secretary-General has called for acceleration of action and ambition on all fronts. Acceleration of action to reduce emissions, to keep the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and thereby prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. But acceleration of action to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
10. Med shot, meeting room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Selvin Hart, Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, United Nations:
“One of the great injustices of the climate crisis is that those that have contributed the least, are the most impacted. Over the course of the last 50 years close to 70 percent of all deaths from climate related impacts were in the least developed countries.”
12. Wide shot, meeting room
1. Wide shot, exteriors, United Nations headquarters
23 MARCH 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sofia Borges, Senior Vice President, UN Foundation:
“This event is particularly timely as today we are celebrating the World Meteorological day. It's the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Secretary General's call for action to ensure every person is protected by multi hazard warnings systems by 2027.”
4. Med shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Petteri Taalas, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
“WMO and IPCC have just released the most recent reports and we have shown that all of the climate indicators are negative. We have seen an increase of melting of glaciers, sea level rise as more than doubled. We have broken records in the main greenhouse gas concentrations carbon dioxide.”
6. Med shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Petteri Taalas, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO):
“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach100 percent coverage, early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place. And we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems. And once you do not have the basic observing systems, the quality of the forecast is automatically poor. We say that if you go junk in your forecast models, you're getting junk out and that's where we where we are.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Selvin Hart, Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, United Nations:
“In response to this report, the Secretary-General has called for acceleration of action and ambition on all fronts. Acceleration of action to reduce emissions, to keep the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and thereby prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. But acceleration of action to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
10. Med shot, meeting room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Selvin Hart, Special Adviser and Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Action, United Nations:
“One of the great injustices of the climate crisis is that those that have contributed the least, are the most impacted. Over the course of the last 50 years close to 70 percent of all deaths from climate related impacts were in the least developed countries.”
12. Wide shot, meeting room
STORYLINE
“We need to mobilize 3.1 billion US dollars in the coming five years to be successful to reach 100 percent coverage of early warning services. Now only half of our 193 country members have such services in place and we have also major gaps in the basic observing systems,” said Professor Petteri Taalas, WMO’s Secretary-General.
At a UN 2023 Water conference side event today (23 Mar), delegates discussed Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and other disaster risk reduction activities.
Petteri Taalas also said “WMO and IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have just released the most recent reports and we have shown that all of the climate indicators are negative. We have seen an increase of melting of glaciers, sea level rise as more than doubled. We have broken records in the main greenhouse gas concentrations carbon dioxide.”
He also stressed, "And once you do not have the basic observing systems, the quality of the forecast is automatically poor. We say that if you go junk in your forecast models, you're getting junk out and that's where we are.”
Sofia Borges, United Nations Foundation's Senior Vice President, said, “This event is particularly timely as today we are celebrating the World Meteorological day.”
Borges continued, “It's the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Secretary General's call for action to ensure every person is protected by multi hazard warnings systems by 2027.”
The United Nations Secretary General announced on 23 March 2022, World Meteorological Day, a new call to action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by Multihazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) within five years.
Selvin Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, Selvin reminded, “In response to this report, the Secretary-General has called for acceleration of action and ambition on all fronts. Acceleration of action to reduce emissions, to keep the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and thereby prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. But acceleration of action to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
He also stressed, “One of the great injustices of the climate crisis is that those that have contributed the least, are the most impacted.”
Hart explained, “Over the course of the last 50 years close to 70 percent of all deaths from climate related impacts were in the least developed countries.”
The side event “Responding to the UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action: Realizing Early Warning Systems for All in a World with Increasing Water Related Hazards” was co-organized by the World Meteorological Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) In collaboration with the Governments of Egypt, Tajikistan, Japan, United States, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
At a UN 2023 Water conference side event today (23 Mar), delegates discussed Multi-hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and other disaster risk reduction activities.
Petteri Taalas also said “WMO and IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have just released the most recent reports and we have shown that all of the climate indicators are negative. We have seen an increase of melting of glaciers, sea level rise as more than doubled. We have broken records in the main greenhouse gas concentrations carbon dioxide.”
He also stressed, "And once you do not have the basic observing systems, the quality of the forecast is automatically poor. We say that if you go junk in your forecast models, you're getting junk out and that's where we are.”
Sofia Borges, United Nations Foundation's Senior Vice President, said, “This event is particularly timely as today we are celebrating the World Meteorological day.”
Borges continued, “It's the one-year anniversary of the United Nations Secretary General's call for action to ensure every person is protected by multi hazard warnings systems by 2027.”
The United Nations Secretary General announced on 23 March 2022, World Meteorological Day, a new call to action to ensure every person on Earth is protected by Multihazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) within five years.
Selvin Hart, Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Climate Action and Just Transition, Selvin reminded, “In response to this report, the Secretary-General has called for acceleration of action and ambition on all fronts. Acceleration of action to reduce emissions, to keep the 1.5 degree goal of the Paris Agreement alive, and thereby prevent the worst impacts of the climate crisis. But acceleration of action to protect those on the frontlines of the climate crisis.”
He also stressed, “One of the great injustices of the climate crisis is that those that have contributed the least, are the most impacted.”
Hart explained, “Over the course of the last 50 years close to 70 percent of all deaths from climate related impacts were in the least developed countries.”
The side event “Responding to the UN Secretary-General’s Call to Action: Realizing Early Warning Systems for All in a World with Increasing Water Related Hazards” was co-organized by the World Meteorological Organization, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) In collaboration with the Governments of Egypt, Tajikistan, Japan, United States, with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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