(23 Nov 2024)
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Baku, Azerbaijan – 23 November 2024
1. Tracking shot of U.S. climate envoy John Podesta with UPSOUND of Podesta saying to reporter (English) "You don’t give up" and reporter asking (English) "How close are we to a deal?"
Podesta (English) "Look, we’re still talking. We just came back after about an hour in the shower and just, we’ll see where it’s going."
Shot follows delegation entering elevator and elevator door closing
2. EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra entering elevator
3. Wide of delegation following
4. Medium of German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan entering elevator with Hoekstra
5. Various of Irish Environment Minister Eamon Ryan speaking in corridor
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Eamon Ryan, Irish environment minister:
"We have to get agreement quickly. And I hope and believe we can. I think it’s really important to show multilateralism still works, that we are responding to the climate crisis that is before all our countries. It’s in all our interests to act on climate."
7. Wide of Ryan speaking with media
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Eamon Ryan, Irish environment minister:
"We’ll have to see what the final number is. I don’t think it’ll be the one initially published yesterday. But it’s not just that number. It is how do you get to 1.3 trillion is the key number. And that requires, we need a cornerstone, but then you need to build on those with innovative sources of finance, with money from carbon markets for nature, particularly, with lower debt, so the countries frozen out of the markets are able to be able to invest in the clean, renewable, energy efficient alternative. So that first cornerstone is important. But we have to build on that to 1.3 trillion."
9. Tracking shot of Ana Toni, Brazil secretary for climate change, in corridor and then walking into room, and Marina Silva, Brazil environment minister with UPSOUND (Portuguese) "We’re still in the process of negotiating."
10. Wide of corridor
STORYLINE:
The United Nations’ annual climate talks pushed into overtime Saturday under a cloud of anger and disappointment as negotiators were well short of a deal on money for developing nations to curb and adapt to climate change.
A draft of the final agreement Friday pledged $250 billion annually by 2035, more than double the previous goal of $100 billion set 15 years ago but far short of the annual $1 trillion-plus that experts say is needed.
Through the early hours of Saturday morning, The Associated Press saw lead negotiators from the European Union, the United States and other nations going through the empty halls from meeting to meeting as delegates tried to hash out a new version of the deal.
"Look, we’re still talking," said U.S. climate envoy John Podesta. "We just came back after about an hour in the shower and just, we’ll see where it’s going."
And by late Saturday morning, he and other delegations said talks on a new deal were still ongoing.
Wealthy nations are obligated to help vulnerable countries under an agreement reached at these talks in Paris in 2015.
Developing nations are seeking $1.3 trillion to help adapt to droughts, floods, rising seas and extreme heat, pay for losses and damages caused by extreme weather, and transition their energy systems away from planet-warming fossil fuels and toward clean energy.
Representatives of some of the nations that are obliged to contribute the cash said the $250 billion climate finance figure is realistic and reflects their limits at a time when their own economies are stretched.
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