STORY: UN / BOLIVIA CLIMATE CHANGE
TRT: 1:37
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 16 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT

SHOTLIST:

RECENT – NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters

16 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

2. Med shot, press conference
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Salon, Permanent Representative of Bolivia:
“You all know this letter of Yvo de Boer that leaked one month ago that reflected how the process of Copenhagen Summit was and how in reality that the mistakes that happened that were not the responsibility of developing countries but of some developed countries that really acted under their own way.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Salon, Permanent Representative of Bolivia:
“We need an Executive Secretary that works for all, works in a transparent way and that is very balanced in relation to the proposals of all different parties and we hope and expect that she would move further on in this direction.”
7. Cutaway, journalists
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Pablo Salon, Permanent Representative of Bolivia:
“We should have come to a negotiating agreement by December in Cancun, a comprehensive agreement. This is very different in the sense that any other negotiation. If you don’t have an agreement in WTO, you can live with it; if you don’t have an agreement on climate change, we are going to suffer a disaster.”
9. Cutaway, journalists
10. Med shot, end of press conference

STORYLINE:

Bolivian Ambassador Pablo Salon said that the next Executive Secretary of the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) needs to work "in a transparent way that is balanced" and warns that without a climate agreement in Mexico at the end of the year, "we are going to suffer a disaster."

At a press conference today (16 June) at UN headquarters, Salon told reporters that a letter written by the current UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer, that was leaked to the public, stated that during the Copenhagen summit last year, there were mistakes made “that were not the responsibility of developing countries but of some developed countries that really acted under their own way.”

Costa Rica’s Christiana Figueres, who has been a member of the country’s climate change negotiating team since 1995 and represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, will succeed de Boer.

On Figueres, Salon said that the Bolivian authorities “hope and expect that she would move further” on the climate change negotiations.

Figueres is expected to assume her duties at UNFCC next month. She founded the Center for Sustainable Development in the Americas (CSDA), a non-profit think tank for climate change policy and capacity building, and has both worked on and served on the boards of non-governmental organizations intimately involved in climate change issues.