STORY: UN climate chief calls for pooling efforts toward achieving final "outcome" for climate summit
SHOOTING TIME: Dec. 11, 2023
DATELINE: Dec. 11, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:12
LOCATION: Dubai
CATEGORY: POLITICS/ENVIRONMENT

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the COP28 climate conference
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIMON STIELL, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary 
3. various of the COP28 climate conference

STORYLINE:

As the COP28 climate conference entered its final stretch, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell on Monday called on all parties to pool efforts toward a final "outcome" for the summit.
  
SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SIMON STIELL, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary
"We do not have a minute to lose in this crucial home stretch, and none of us have had much sleep, so I'm going to be incredibly brief in my remarks. Negotiators have a chance, right here in Dubai over the next 24 hours, to start a new chapter -- one that really delivers for people and planet."

The UN climate chief said debates are lingering over two key issues: countries' ambitions on climate crisis mitigation and their willingness to back up the transition ambitions with the proper means of support.
   
Noting "'I win - you lose' is a recipe for collective failure," he called for clearing the unnecessary tactical blockades out of the way, rejecting incrementalism, and preserving and respecting every party's seat at the table, with key tenets being inclusion, representation, and transparency, as well as putting the highest ambition outcomes front and center.
   
COP28, or the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is due to conclude on Tuesday, with a new draft text of a hoped-for final agreement expected to be released.
   
However, final deals can only be passed based on consensus among the nearly 200 countries present.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Dubai.
(XHTV)