UN Climate Change Conference must make progress: UN chief

STORY: UN Climate Change Conference must make progress: UN chief DATELINE: Sept. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:35 LOCATION: UN Headquarters CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. SOUNDBITE (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General STORYLINE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Thursday that the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Egypt (COP27) must make broad progress in a video message for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) leaders' breakfast. SOUNDBITE (English): ANTONIO GUTERRES, UN Secretary-General "COP27 must demonstrate that the world is making progress on all pillars of the Paris Agreement. We urgently need to address loss and damage in a meaningful and credible way. Loss and damage are happening now -- at 1.1 degrees of warming. The floods in Pakistan have inundated a third of the country. We can only imagine the fate of small islands if we go beyond 1.5 degrees. Two degrees of warming is unthinkable and must be avoided at all costs. We need a targeted, ambitious global r