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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 November 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press:
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"Here at the United Nations climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, we are in World Leader Day, and the star today was the United Kingdom’s Keir Starmer. Why? Because he said that his government is going to try to cut heat-trapping carbon dioxide emissions by 81% over the next several years. That is much more ambitious than almost any other country we’ve seen. And that got pretty good reviews. The trouble is, he was the only star-powered world leader and the only one making such an ambitious proposal. Usually, these climate talks in the first two days are chock full of world leaders, sort of celebrity leaders. It’s like the World Cup. You see all these stars. This year, it’s sort of like the World Chess Championship: names most people don’t know. Most of the time here it was people like the Belarus president talking about, hey, all the countries that are causing the pollution aren’t here. At least their leaders aren’t here. The top 13 polluting nations did not have their leaders speak today or tomorrow. That’s a big thing and that’s 73% of the carbon pollution that’s in the atmosphere and their leaders didn’t speak."
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 9 November 2024
2. Wide of entrance to COP29 venue
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 November 2024
3. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking
4. STILL of Starmer speaking
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 11 November 2024
5. Wide of entrance
6. Various of world leaders arriving
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 12 November 2024
7. STILL of leaders posing for a group photo
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 9 November 2024
8. Various of entrance
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9. Oil pumps operating
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10. Coal processing plant
STORYLINE:
World leaders have converged on the United Nations annual climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, though some major figures are missing.
This year’s talks, known as COP29, won’t be as high-profile as last year’s, with fewer leaders scheduled to speak. Those of the top two carbon polluting countries — China and the United States — will be absent. So will heads of state from China, India, and European nations like Germany and France.
But a strong showing is expected from the leaders of some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries.
Several small island nations presidents and over a dozen leaders from countries across Africa are expected to speak over the two-day World Leaders’ Summit at the COP29 conference.
Curbing and coping with climate change’s worsening heat, floods, droughts and storms will cost trillions of dollars and poor nations just don’t have it. The floor in negotiations is the $100 billion a year that poor nations now get as part of a 2009 agreement that was barely met. Several experts and poorer nations say the need is $1 trillion a year or more.
The money being discussed is for three things: Helping poor nations switch from dirty fossil fuels to clean energy; helping them adapt to the impacts of a warming world such as sea level rise and worsening storms; and compensating vulnerable poor nations for climate change damage.
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