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STORY: BELEM / COP30 BAERBOCK PRESSER
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SOURCE: COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC) / UN NEWS
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10, 17 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
UN NEWS - 10 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
1. Tilt up, exterior, COP30 venue
UN NEWS - 17 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
2. Wide shot, conference room
COURTESY EMPRESA BRASIL DE COMUNICAÇÃO (EBC) 17 NOVEMBER 2025, BELEM, BRAZIL
3. Med shot, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock walks up to rostrum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“In these heavy geopolitical times, we all feel the headwinds and the backlash. But this is not a moment of resignation, it's a moment of action. Those of us who have spent years in the climate process know that the COP journey has never been one of easy, linear progress. It always came, and it always comes, in ebbs and flows.”
5. Med shot, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“The climate crisis is unrelenting. It pays no heed to our frustrations or to the denials of sceptics. We saw this when Hurricane Melissa barrelled into the Caribbean two weeks ago; we saw it again last week as the Philippines endured two near back-to-back typhoons.”
7. Med shot, delegates
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“Renewables are cheap. They are scalable. And they are now the fastest-growing source of power, accounting for 90 percent of new energy installations globally in 2024. We speak so often of tipping points in negative terms, but there are also positive tipping points too. And this is one of them, maybe the most important one. You can demonize clean energy all you want, but ten years after Paris, renewables are simply unstoppable.”
9. Med shot, delegates applauding
10. Wide shot, press conference dais
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“In the Paris Agreement, renewable energies were only mentioned once and only related to technologies for Africa. Many doubted even their business case. Talking about phasing out of coal, phasing out of fossil fuel, as I was discussing back then, was also seen almost as sacrilegious. And now, ten years later, all of this has changed.”
12. Wide shot, press conference dais
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“Money, as such, is not the problem. Solutions are not the problems, but we have to prioritize right. Vast potential remains untapped because capital is not flowing where it is needed most. So, we do have to shift the trillions of dollars in climate finance, especially to those countries which are hardest hit by the climate crisis but carry the lowest responsibility.”
14. Wide shot, press conference dais
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“So, 10 years after Paris, and at the 80th anniversary of the UN which we are celebrating this year, we are meeting here in Brazil at the birthplace of the UNFCCC, we have the chance to write the next chapter of climate justice to deliver on the three pillars of the UN: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights.”
16. Wide shot, press conference dais
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Annalena Baerbock, President, General Assembly, United Nations:
“It doesn't help if you have great funds, if governments are discussing for sometimes years who is contributing to this fund, The Green Climate Fund, the loss and damage fund. It all took years. But then when you actually need the money after a hurricane has hit an island or region in the world, it takes 10 or 5 years to get the money on the ground. So, this is why I underlined how important it is to combine the different processes we are having right now.”
18. Wide shot, end of presser
10 years after Paris, and on the 80th anniversary of the UN, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock today (17 Nov) said, “we have the chance to write the next chapter of climate justice to deliver on the three pillars of the UN: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights.”
Addressing the High-Level Segment of COP 30 in Bel, Brazil, Baerbock said, “In these heavy geopolitical times, we all feel the headwinds and the backlash. But this is not a moment of resignation, it's a moment of action.”
She said, “those of us who have spent years in the climate process know that the COP journey has never been one of easy, linear progress. It always came, and it always comes, in ebbs and flows.”
The climate crisis, Baerbock continued, “is unrelenting” and “pays no heed to our frustrations or to the denials of sceptics. “
On the positive side, she said, “renewables are cheap. They are scalable. And they are now the fastest-growing source of power, accounting for 90 percent of new energy installations globally in 2024.”
The President of the General Assembly said, “we speak so often of tipping points in negative terms, but there are also positive tipping points too. And this is one of them, maybe the most important one. You can demonize clean energy all you want, but ten years after Paris, renewables are simply unstoppable.”
At a later press encounter, she noted that in the Paris Agreement, “renewable energies were only mentioned once and only related to technologies for Africa,” and “many doubted even their business case.”
Ten years later, she said, “all of this has changed.”
Baerbock said, “money, as such, is not the problem. Solutions are not the problems, but we have to prioritize right. Vast potential remains untapped because capital is not flowing where it is needed most. “
She said, “we do have to shift the trillions of dollars in climate finance, especially to those countries which are hardest hit by the climate crisis but carry the lowest responsibility.”
Responding to a question, Baerbock said, “it doesn't help if you have great funds, if governments are discussing for sometimes years who is contributing to this fund, The Green Climate Fund, the loss and damage fund. It all took years. But then when you actually need the money after a hurricane has hit an island or region in the world, it takes 10 or 5 years to get the money on the ground. So, this is why I underlined how important it is to combine the different processes we are having right now.”
Following today’s formal opening of the High-level segment, the conference will begin hearing National statements and statements on behalf of Groups. Upon conclusion of national statements on 18 November, the High-Level Segment will hear statements from intergovernmental organizations and groups of non-governmental organizations admitted by the Conference of the Parties.
