(23 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 23 November 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) John Podesta, U.S. Climate Adviser:
“It’s important to be worked out because the need is great. The offer on the table from donor countries was high, so hopefully we can pull something together."
2. Various of hecklers following Podesta ++CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS SHOT++ UPSOUND hecklers: "National private equity platform. You forced Biden to be elected to put you in power and now you won’t do the U.S. fair share. That’s right you’ve got three big environmental groups together and now you’re selling them all out. You said fair share. That was your platform. You’ve got to let go. Now you’re selling us out. Shame! Shame! No progressive credentials, legacy of burning up the planet. You promised fair share, that the U.S. would do its fair share. Now you’re backing out of the agreement, Podesta. Run away. No honor, no honor, run away. Run away, coward!
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization director:
“We hear them saying that they’re going to lower the ambition, they want to dilute the responsibilities, lower the bar so that the U.S. can rejoin after Trump. And we’re saying, forget that. Don’t do that in our name. They should go away, step down like Biden did. Some of our, U.S. negotiators have been there for 30 years, and we need them to stop running away from our responsibilities and to pay our fair share. So we’re asking them to either pay up or shut up.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez, Panama’s lead negotiator:
“The main issue right now is that the process has not been as inclusive and as transparent as it should have been, and there are many groupings within the developing world that don’t see themselves reflected on this working text. There is a lot of work to get to be done. However, we cannot leave Baku without a decision. Baku cannot become the new Copenhagen. It will be a fatal wound. Not only to the process but also to the planet and people.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Cedric Schuster, Head of AOSIS (Alliance of Small Island States):
“We’re here as a group of AOSIS and LDC (least developed countries). We’ve just walked out. We came here to this COP for a fair deal. We feel that we haven’t been heard and there’s a deal to be made, and we are not being consulted. That’s why we’re here. But we are here to negotiate. But we walked out because at the moment we don’t feel that we are being heard.”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jiwoh Emmanuel Abdulai, Sierra Leone Minister of Environment and Climate Change:
“We are the countries that are probably the most affected by climate change. You know, our countries have not contributed a lot, but we are affected. That’s why we’re here to negotiate on behalf of our countries. We’ve made our needs and wants known. They’re being ignored. And that’s why we walked out.”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Susana Muhamad, Colombian Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development:
“But the problem is that this has been released very late. It was released yesterday. The timing is very short. So we have some countries which are the most… the least capacity, not feeling satisfied with them to be able to move and deliberate, but I will encourage the North to step up.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohamed Adow, Power Shift Africa Director:
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Lidy Nacpil, Philippines Coordinator with the Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development:
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brandon Wu, Director of Policy and Campaigns at ActionAid USA:
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
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