COP28 CEO: Deal to phase out fossil fuels unlikely

(22 Sep 2023)
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New York – 18 September 2023
1. COP28 CEO Adnan Amin greeting AP journalist
2. Various of Amin during interview
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Amin, COP28 CEO:
“There are a significant number of countries that are opposed to the language of phase out. The way the COP process works, and I think maybe this is part of the frustration with the COP process, is that it works by consensus. You need only one country to say no and you don't have an agreement. So what we have to do is build momentum, build consciousness, undertake the kind of consultations we need with different parties, bring them to the same space, and try to create an agreement that is beyond where we have been in the past.”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 17 September 2023
4. Various of protesters marching to demand an end to the fossil fuel industry
5. Close banner reading “Biden: Our future is on fire”

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New York – 18 September 2023
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Amin, COP28 CEO:
“We believe that the oil and gas industry needs to be part of the climate equation, come to the table and be accountable for what it's doing in the public space. We are engaging with them to see if we can get them to commit to, you know, more rapid decarbonization of their operations, reducing scope one and two emissions. Looking at solutions for scope three emissions, we're looking at a potential pathway to zero in methane by 2030. I think that if they are on board and they understand their responsibilities and they have the public scrutiny, they will understand that they need to move much faster than they have been moving.”

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7. Various of oil pump in operation
8. Oil pump reflected in puddle of spilled oil on ground
9. Various of oil workers carrying out maintenance on pipeline

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New York – 18 September 2023
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Amin, COP28 CEO:
“There is a lot of impatience given the scale of the crisis, but the multilateral system moves slowly, but it moves. If you think back, if we didn't have the Paris Agreement, if we didn't have the Kyoto Protocol, if we hadn't had the decisions we've taken along the way in the COP process, would we be where we are or would we be in a situation where emissions are much higher than they are today? I believe that it has had some impact. We cannot, we cannot just say that it has been entirely blah blah.”

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ARCHIVE: New York – 17 September 2023
11. Various of protesters during march to end fossil fuels
12. Various of protesters playing drums while marching

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13. SOUNDBITE (English) Adnan Amin, COP28 CEO:
"(Reporter: So what do you hope ten years from now people will be saying about COP28?)
They'll be saying, I hope I hope they will be saying that we didn't think that an oil producing country could achieve an outcome on climate of this sort. We didn't think that a process that we thought was blah blah could achieve an outcome of this sort. But that was the course correction that the world needed to get us to a place of comfort for all of us.”

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ARCHIVE: Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt - 14 November 2022
14. Various of participants walking outside COP27 venue
STORYLINE:
A top official of upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a “course correction” for an ever-warming world.

But don't expect that big a turn.
In 10 years when critics and others look back at the talks, Amin wants to hear amazement.
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