(14 Nov 2011) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arriving for climate conference
2. Wide of officials taking seats
3. Mid of attendees
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:
"In this time of global economic uncertainty, let your commitment to green growth be an inspiration to more developed countries and major emitters. We are in the middle of a serious economic crisis. But even in these difficult times, we cannot afford delay."
5. Cutaway of media
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:
"We have to make it happen, and we have to have a clear understanding and agreement on how the developing world will generate 100 (b) billion dollars per year by 2020, that was a promise made in Copenhagen three years ago."
7. Audience applauding
8. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh Prime Minister:
"I hope the CVF (Climate Vulnerable Forum) will contribute to forging an effective partnership and responsible decision making. We, the most vulnerable countries, must remain united and firm in the articulation of our legitimate demands so that the global actors pay due attention to our existential threats and rectify the injustice that we are faced with."
9. Wide of conference
10. Officials on stage
11. Various of meeting between countries' representatives
STORYLINE
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged world leaders on Monday to finalise the financing for a multi (b) billion-dollar fund to fight the effects of climate change.
Delegates at a UN-sponsored climate-change conference that starts on the November 28 in Durban, South Africa, are to consider ways to raise 100 (b) billion US dollars a year for the Green Climate Fund, created last December to help countries cope with global warming.
Ban told the opening session of a climate meeting in Bangladesh's capital that the world should make a concerted effort to finance the fund.
"In this time of global economic uncertainty, let your commitment to green growth be an inspiration to more developed countries and major emitters," he said.
"We are in the middle of a serious economic crisis. But even in these difficult times, we cannot afford delay," he added.
Representatives of about 30 nations in the Climate Vulnerable Forum are meeting for two days in Dhaka to formulate a united stand on funding for schemes to limit the damage from global warming.
The countries from Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific are also seeking action by industrialised nations to cut carbon emissions and provide technical and financial support.
In her address, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that "vulnerable countries" must emphasis their "legitimate demands so that the global actors pay due attention to our existential threats and rectify the injustice that we are faced with."
The forum was founded by President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and first met in November 2009.
Ban said he hoped the forum would take a strong position at the Durban conference, which is to be attended by more than 190 countries.
The Durban conference will also seek to reach a new international climate agreement as the Kyoto Protocol expires next year.
The 1997 Kyoto Protocol mandated relatively modest reductions of emissions of greenhouse gases by industrialised nations.
The US rejected the agreement, saying it would hurt the American economy and that cutbacks should have been required of poorer but fast-developing nations such as China and India.
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