(13 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baku, Azerbaijan – 13 November 2024
1. Wide of press conference
2. Various of speakers
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda:
“And perhaps we need to change the narrative so that these countries and even at the macro organizational level that they do not see the issue of climate funding as an expense, but as an investment. And also to address this inverted morality in which those who contribute to funding climate change, that they see it as a random act of charity, not recognizing that they have an obligation, a moral obligation to provide funding, especially the historical emitters and even those who currently have large emissions. Because at the end of the day, about 270 some years ago, they were actually burning the planet down without recognizing that they were doing so when they pursued the Industrial Revolution.
4. Various of reporter asking questions
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hilda Heine, President of Marshall Islands:
“I will communicate with President-elect Trump about the importance to our shared security, as their bases in the Marshall Islands of taking the climate crisis seriously. I think, as I said, the Paris Agreement is a robust process. We don’t think that the election result will necessarily put a stop to the process that is underway. In the United States, states and cities that are already actively moving this process forward.”
6. Wide of reporters
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda:
“I believe that the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement by the United States will be a retrogressive step. The United States has an obligation, a moral obligation, perhaps more so than any other, to provide leadership and climate funding to address the issue of climate change because of its historical emissions. So they need to provide funding to clean up the mess that they created over hundreds of years. And we also need to provide funding as a form of climate justice, because at the end of the day, United States, like other large polluting countries, would have created a tort against all of humanity. And for them to walk away from their obligation, I think that is totally inappropriate.”
8. Wide of panel
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Eamon Ryan, Ireland Environment Minister:
“The Paris Agreement still lives. It’s still strong. It’s actually delivering for countries because it is the way forward to a better economy. And any country that might want to opt out, I think they will come back because they realize that they’re falling behind. They’re missing out on the new economy to come. “
10. Sign of COP29
11. Wide of press conference
STORYLINE:
Small Island countries at the United Nations climate conference in Baku criticized the United States’ intended withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and called on countries to stay united in their commitments to reduce emissions.
Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, at a panel with members of the High Ambition Coalition, highlighted the “inverted morality” of big emitters who aren’t taking responsibility for their impact on countries who have the most to lose.
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine said she would talk with President-elect Donald Trump as the climate crisis is “the most pressing security issue” her country faces and she said she didn’t think the U.S. election result will pause the process that is moving forward in states and cities around the U.S.
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