COP27 Wrap USAGM
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- COP27 Wrap USAGM
- November 20, 2022
- Content Type Package
- Language English
- Transcript/Script English TV/RADIO ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COP 27 WRAP HEADLINE: ‘Nature is Revolting,' say Brazilian Climate Change Victims as UN Announces 'Loss and Damage' Fund TEASER: COP27 delegates agree to new fund for poor countries but fail to slow carbon emissions PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Heather Murdock DATELINE: SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt/GUARUJA, Brazil VIDEOGRAPHER: Yan Boechat, Walid Ghariani VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: sv, Steve Hirsch VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, REUTERS PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:42 VID APPROVED BY: sv TYPE: EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[The U.N. climate conference ended in overtime on Sunday morning, with the creation of a “loss and damage fund,” which analysts say is a step toward helping the people already suffering the most from climate change. But in settlements crushed by mudslides in Brazil, locals say it will take more than money to avert disaster. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with Yan Boechat in Guaruja, Brazil. ((REUTERS VIDEO: MUDSLIDE)) ((NARRATOR:)) In 2020, dozens of people were killed as heavy rains triggered a mudslide into this impoverished settlement in Brazil. It took days to dig out the bodies. Families in the area say that unlike the case in years and generations past, the rain is now aggressive, dangerous and terrifying. ((Joseilda Borges Amarante, Guaruja resident)) ((Female, Portuguese)) 12:26 “The rain is very different these days. I work with elders. They say they've never seen anything like this rain. The climate is very different.” ((RADIO: Guaruja resident Joseilda Borges Amarante says elders in her community say the rain and the climate, is unlike anything they’ve seen before.)) ((VOA VIDEO: CLIMATE CONFERENCE, DAMAGED VILLAGES IN BRAZIL)) ((NARRATOR:)) On Sunday, the U.N. climate conference in Egypt, COP27, ended after a day and half of overtime negotiations with an agreement to establish a “loss and damage” fund to help the world’s most vulnerable communities prepare for and recover from climate change-related disasters." With the first official meetings to even discuss where to get the money and how to disperse it not scheduled until March 2023, though, it does little to help families already on the front lines of climate change, struggling as climate-related disasters increase in frequency and deadliness. While COP27 did not retreat on international goals to limit global warming, officials say it did little to further achievement of those goals. ((RADIO: Here’s U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres)) ((VIDEO: UNITED NATIONS VIDEO STATEMENT)) ((UN Secretary-General António Guterres)) ((Male, English)) “We need to drastically reduce emissions now – and this is an issue this COP did not address. A fund for loss and damage is essential – but it’s not an answer if the climate crisis washes a small island state off the map – or turns an entire African country to desert.” ((VOA VIDEO: FAVELA LIFE, FIRES)) ((NARRATOR)) In Guaruja, Brazil, locals say the problem is threefold. The climate is changing rapidly, people are destroying the environment, and they have no money to recover after a disaster. Climate change alone might not have caused deadly mudslides, they say, if the mountains had not been stripped of trees and bushes. ((RADIO: Acácio Bezerra da Silva is a painter living in mudslide ravaged area.)) ((Acácio Bezerra da Silva, wall painter)) ((Male, Portuguese)) 7:01 “This is what happens when nature gets angry for what people do to it. These are the consequences.” ((VOA VIDEO: FORESTS, BROKEN HOMES)) ((NARRATOR)) “Nature is revolting,” he adds, for decades of deforestation and the neglect that have already led the world to warm more than 1 degree Celsius, a trend he hopes international negotiators can slow down, because it is already too late to reverse it. ((For VOA, Heather Murdock in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and Yan Boechat in Guaruja, Brazil))
- Transcript/Script TV/RADIO ((PLAYBOOK SLUG: COP 27 WRAP HEADLINE: ‘Nature is Revolting,' say Brazilian Climate Change Victims as UN Announces 'Loss and Damage' Fund TEASER: COP27 delegates agree to new fund for poor countries but fail to slow carbon emissions PUBLISHED AT: BYLINE: Heather Murdock DATELINE: SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt/GUARUJA, Brazil VIDEOGRAPHER: Yan Boechat, Walid Ghariani VIDEO EDITOR: SCRIPT EDITORS: sv, Steve Hirsch VIDEO SOURCE (S): VOA, REUTERS PLATFORMS (mark with X): WEB __ TV _x_ RADIO __ TRT: 2:42 VID APPROVED BY: sv TYPE: EDITOR NOTES:)) ((INTRO)) [[The U.N. climate conference ended in overtime on Sunday morning, with the creation of a “loss and damage fund,” which analysts say is a step toward helping the people already suffering the most from climate change. But in settlements crushed by mudslides in Brazil, locals say it will take more than money to avert disaster. VOA’s Heather Murdock reports in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt with Yan Boechat in Guaruja, Brazil. ((REUTERS VIDEO: MUDSLIDE)) ((NARRATOR:)) In 2020, dozens of people were killed as heavy rains triggered a mudslide into this impoverished settlement in Brazil. It took days to dig out the bodies. Families in the area say that unlike the case in years and generations past, the rain is now aggressive, dangerous and terrifying. ((Joseilda Borges Amarante, Guaruja resident)) ((Female, Portuguese)) 12:26 “The rain is very different these days. I work with elders. They say they've never seen anything like this rain. The climate is very different.” ((RADIO: Guaruja resident Joseilda Borges Amarante says elders in her community say the rain and the climate, is unlike anything they’ve seen before.)) ((VOA VIDEO: CLIMATE CONFERENCE, DAMAGED VILLAGES IN BRAZIL)) ((NARRATOR:)) On Sunday, the U.N. climate conference in Egypt, COP27, ended after a day and half of overtime negotiations with an agreement to establish a “loss and damage” fund to help the world’s most vulnerable communities prepare for and recover from climate change-related disasters." With the first official meetings to even discuss where to get the money and how to disperse it not scheduled until March 2023, though, it does little to help families already on the front lines of climate change, struggling as climate-related disasters increase in frequency and deadliness. While COP27 did not retreat on international goals to limit global warming, officials say it did little to further achievement of those goals. ((RADIO: Here’s U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres)) ((VIDEO: UNITED NATIONS VIDEO STATEMENT)) ((UN Secretary-General António Guterres)) ((Male, English)) “We need to drastically reduce emissions now – and this is an issue this COP did not address. A fund for loss and damage is essential – but it’s not an answer if the climate crisis washes a small island state off the map – or turns an entire African country to desert.” ((VOA VIDEO: FAVELA LIFE, FIRES)) ((NARRATOR)) In Guaruja, Brazil, locals say the problem is threefold. The climate is changing rapidly, people are destroying the environment, and they have no money to recover after a disaster. Climate change alone might not have caused deadly mudslides, they say, if the mountains had not been stripped of trees and bushes. ((RADIO: Acácio Bezerra da Silva is a painter living in mudslide ravaged area.)) ((Acácio Bezerra da Silva, wall painter)) ((Male, Portuguese)) 7:01 “This is what happens when nature gets angry for what people do to it. These are the consequences.” ((VOA VIDEO: FORESTS, BROKEN HOMES)) ((NARRATOR)) “Nature is revolting,” he adds, for decades of deforestation and the neglect that have already led the world to warm more than 1 degree Celsius, a trend he hopes international negotiators can slow down, because it is already too late to reverse it. ((For VOA, Heather Murdock in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt and Yan Boechat in Guaruja, Brazil))
- NewsML Media Topics Arts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
- Network VOA
- Embargo Date November 20, 2022 14:07 EST
- Byline Heather Murdock
- Brand / Language Service Voice of America