(12 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 11 November 2024
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1. Wide pan right of news conference
2. Attendees working
3. SOUNDBITE (English) John Podesta, U.S. Climate Adviser:
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"This is not the end of our fight for a cleaner, safer planet. Facts are still facts. Science is still science. The fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle in one country. This fight is bigger still because we are all living through a year defined by the climate crisis in every country of the world.”
4. Various of Podesta listening to reporters’ questions
5. SOUNDBITE (English) John Podesta, U.S. Climate Adviser:
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"We are here to work and we are committed to a successful outcome at COP29. We can and we will make real progress on the backs of our climate-committed states and cities, our innovators, our companies and our citizens, especially young people who understand more than most that climate change poses an existential threat that we cannot afford to ignore. Failure or apathy is simply not an option.”
6. Various of journalists working during news conference
7. Podesta leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
America’s clean energy economy won’t reverse into the dirty past, a combative, but “bitterly disappointed” top American climate negotiator said Monday, nearly a week after Donald Trump, who disputes climate change and its impact, was re-elected president of the United States.
Speaking to participants of COP29, the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, John Podesta said no matter what kind of U-turn Trump will make on climate change, progress could still be achieved through climate-committed states and cities, innovators, companies and citizens, "especially young people who understand more than most that climate change poses an existential threat that we cannot afford to ignore."
He added "the fight is bigger than one election, one political cycle in one country."
As the first day of climate talks stalled in a fight over approving an agenda for the next two weeks, Podesta struck a defiant but realistic tone.
He said Trump will likely pull the United States out of the landmark Paris agreement and try to roll back many of the Biden administration’s signature climate moves.
Another senior U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said other countries are still working with American diplomats because they care what the U.S. thinks and any agreement struck here has to be by consensus.
After Trump is inaugurated, others will pick up the fight, inside and outside America, Podesta said.
Podesta ran through a shopping list of climate disasters, starting with the hottest day recorded, July 22, continuing with floods, hurricanes and droughts.
Podesta, a prominent Democratic official, said the administration will work on a peaceful transition with Trump, but did not hold back on his criticism of the president-elect’s policies and past.
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