(15 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 15 November 2024
1. Wide interior of COP29 venue
2. Close-up on sign "COP29: Sustainable Actions, Resilient Planet"
3. Catherine Abreu, Director of the International Climate Politics Hub, talking to Kaveh Guilanpour, Vice President for International Strategies at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Catherine Abreu, Director of the International Climate Politics Hub:
"It (the letter) has landed in an atmosphere of cynicism around the ability of this space to deliver the outcomes that it needs to deliver. And I think perhaps these constructive ideas for how we might turn this space into an implementation vehicle have been misinterpreted in that context as a criticism of the space. And ultimately, I think we all agree that it is absolutely essential for countries to cooperate to tackle the climate crisis. No one country can do this alone. And this is the only space that brings every country in the world together to do anything. And in this case, it’s to address the greatest crisis of our generation"
5. Abreu speaking to journalists
6. SOUNDBITE(English) Catherine Abreu, Director of the International Climate Politics Hub:
"We know that 1,700 fossil fuel lobbyists are here at COP29. That is larger than most country delegations, except for three country delegations, including the host country delegations. Those interests are not here to drive ambition. In fact, they’re here to take us backward. The UNFCCC needs a conflict of interest policy that puts a firewall between all things climate change, all things UNFCCC and all things fossil fuels. And that conflict of interest policy needs to apply to the presidencies as much as it does to the delegates"
7. Abreu, Guilanpour and Yeb Sano, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia talking to journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yeb Sano, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia:
"It is a big problem when the fossil fuel industry is involved in climate negotiations and in hosting the spaces where we have to deal with pushing ambition in this process. And therefore, all COPs, I must say, should be rid of vested interests. And therefore, one of the ways that can be done, without undermining the larger work that we’re trying to do here and all parties are trying to do here, is to prevent corporate capture of these spaces and make sure that COPs are public funded instead of being funded by big corporate money"
9. Wide of media briefing
STORYLINE:
Delegates at the UN climate conference, COP29, in Azerbaijan have been reacting to a letter calling for "an urgent overhaul” of the talks.
The letter, signed by leading climate figureheads, accused the global climate process of no longer being "fit for purpose."
It came after Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev announced in an opening speech of the conference that oil and gas are a “gift of the gods.”
Yeb Sano, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia, called for all COPs to be "rid of vested interests."
He recommended that annual gatherings should be publicly funded to prevent "corporate capture" of them.
However Catherine Abreu, director of the International Climate Politics Hub, said COP meetings were the only space that brings "every country together."
"Ultimately, I think we all agree that it is absolutely essential for countries to cooperate to tackle the climate crisis. No one country can do this alone."
But she admitted that there were "1,700 fossil fuel lobbyists" at COP29.
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