COP27 Amazon USAGM
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- COP27 Amazon USAGM
- November 17, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COP27 AMAZON HEADLINE: At COP27, Brazil’s Lula Brings Hope for the Amazon TEASER: For the people of the Amazon, the forest is sacred, and they say their future depends on its survival PUBLISHED AT: 11/17/2022 at 10:40am BYLINE: Heather Murdock DATELINE: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT/AMAZON REGION, BRAZIL VIDEOGRAPHER: Yan Boechat, Walid Ghariani VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: LR, Salem Solomon VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP PLATFORM: WEB __ TV X RADIO _x_ TRT: 2:37 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[At the U.N. climate conference in Egypt, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared plans to fight the destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, before it’s too late to turn back the clock on deforestation. Indigenous people living in the Amazon say in recent years, they have been fighting alone, and losing. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with Yan Boechat in the Amazon region of Brazil.]] ((NARRATOR)) The Amazon spans eight countries and is home to thousands of animal species and hundreds of languages. People living here come from tribes that are thousands of years old. It is one of the most biodiverse places on earth, and critical to protecting humankind from the carbon emissions that continue to grow despite global efforts to fight climate change. Locals call the forest sacred. [[Radio track: VOA went to Brazil’s Amazon region and interviewed resident Ronaldo Baré.]] ((Ronaldo Baré, Amazon Resident)) ((Male, in Portuguese)) “We walk around here, but with respect. We don't eat here. We hunt here, but we eat after we leave these sacred forests and bathe in the river. If we don’t treat this land with respect, soon comes the thunder, soon comes the lightning.” ((NARRATOR)) Most of the Amazon is in Brazil, and in recent years, deforestation has accelerated under the leadership of climate-change skeptic President Jair Bolsonaro. Some scientists say the Amazon is nearing a tipping point from which the biome may never recover. But on Wednesday, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula,” joined the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt declaring “Brazil is back,” as a leader in fighting climate change. He vowed to stop the destruction of the Amazon, saying “no one is safe” without it. ((NARRATOR)) Young activists at the conference celebrated. [[Radio track: Clara de Assis Andrade, a 24-year-old aboriginal Amazonian, traveled to the conference from Brazil.]] ((Clara de Assis Andrade, Climate Change Activist)) ((Female, in Portuguese)) “It brings hope for indigenous communities because for four years we’ve been excluded from policies while it’s our communities being impacted.” ((NARRATOR)) In the Amazon, residents say preserving the forest for humanity requires preserving the local cultures that protect it, a sentiment echoed by Lula at the climate conference. Even the children among the 30 million Amazon residents say their future and the future of the region are one and the same. [[Radio track One of those children is Adrian Baniwa. He spoke to VOA in the Amazon region.]] ((Adriano Baniwa, Amazon Resident)) “I want to live here, work, work in the fields with my mother, help her.” ((NARRATOR)) Delegates at the climate conference warn that despite their high hopes, Lula now faces the difficult task of gathering wide support at home and abroad from political and business interests to successfully reverse the recent destruction of the Amazon. ((For Yan Boechat in the Amazon region of Brazil, Heather Murdock, VOA News, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt))
- Transcript/Script USAGM SHARE ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COP27 AMAZON HEADLINE: At COP27, Brazil’s Lula Brings Hope for the Amazon TEASER: For the people of the Amazon, the forest is sacred, and they say their future depends on its survival PUBLISHED AT: 11/17/2022 at 10:40am BYLINE: Heather Murdock DATELINE: SHARM EL SHEIKH, EGYPT/AMAZON REGION, BRAZIL VIDEOGRAPHER: Yan Boechat, Walid Ghariani VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: LR, Salem Solomon VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, AFP PLATFORM: WEB __ TV X RADIO _x_ TRT: 2:37 VID APPROVED BY: MAS TYPE: TVPKG EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[At the U.N. climate conference in Egypt, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva declared plans to fight the destruction of the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, before it’s too late to turn back the clock on deforestation. Indigenous people living in the Amazon say in recent years, they have been fighting alone, and losing. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports from Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with Yan Boechat in the Amazon region of Brazil.]] ((NARRATOR)) The Amazon spans eight countries and is home to thousands of animal species and hundreds of languages. People living here come from tribes that are thousands of years old. It is one of the most biodiverse places on earth, and critical to protecting humankind from the carbon emissions that continue to grow despite global efforts to fight climate change. Locals call the forest sacred. [[Radio track: VOA went to Brazil’s Amazon region and interviewed resident Ronaldo Baré.]] ((Ronaldo Baré, Amazon Resident)) ((Male, in Portuguese)) “We walk around here, but with respect. We don't eat here. We hunt here, but we eat after we leave these sacred forests and bathe in the river. If we don’t treat this land with respect, soon comes the thunder, soon comes the lightning.” ((NARRATOR)) Most of the Amazon is in Brazil, and in recent years, deforestation has accelerated under the leadership of climate-change skeptic President Jair Bolsonaro. Some scientists say the Amazon is nearing a tipping point from which the biome may never recover. But on Wednesday, Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as “Lula,” joined the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt declaring “Brazil is back,” as a leader in fighting climate change. He vowed to stop the destruction of the Amazon, saying “no one is safe” without it. ((NARRATOR)) Young activists at the conference celebrated. [[Radio track: Clara de Assis Andrade, a 24-year-old aboriginal Amazonian, traveled to the conference from Brazil.]] ((Clara de Assis Andrade, Climate Change Activist)) ((Female, in Portuguese)) “It brings hope for indigenous communities because for four years we’ve been excluded from policies while it’s our communities being impacted.” ((NARRATOR)) In the Amazon, residents say preserving the forest for humanity requires preserving the local cultures that protect it, a sentiment echoed by Lula at the climate conference. Even the children among the 30 million Amazon residents say their future and the future of the region are one and the same. [[Radio track One of those children is Adrian Baniwa. He spoke to VOA in the Amazon region.]] ((Adriano Baniwa, Amazon Resident)) “I want to live here, work, work in the fields with my mother, help her.” ((NARRATOR)) Delegates at the climate conference warn that despite their high hopes, Lula now faces the difficult task of gathering wide support at home and abroad from political and business interests to successfully reverse the recent destruction of the Amazon. ((For Yan Boechat in the Amazon region of Brazil, Heather Murdock, VOA News, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date November 17, 2022 10:32 EST
- Byline Heather Murdock
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America