SCOTLAND: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PRESS CONFERENCE AT GLENEAGLES ON THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE DURING G8 SUMMIT.

Record ID: 949396

  • Title: SCOTLAND: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS PRESS CONFERENCE AT GLENEAGLES ON THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE DURING G8 SUMMIT.
  • Date: 6th July 2005
  • Summary: (W3) GLENEAGLES, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM (JULY 6, 2005) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/EXTERIOR: GLENEAGLES HOTEL. 0.08 2. MV/INTERIOR: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP REPRESENTATIVES SEATED FOR NEWS CONFERENCE. 0.17 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN TINDALE, DIRECTOR OF GREENPEACE UK, SAYING: "In our view the fact that 150,000 people are dying every year already as a result of climate change according to the World Health Organisation means that climate change is already dangerous. But it's very clear to all concerned, and this was the clear message from the Exeter conference, that unless we take very prompt and very radical action, that figure will spiral upwards." 0.43 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) SARAH LA TROBE FROM CHARITY TEARFUND SAYING: "The total cost of disasters in the developing world in the 1990s was 35 billion dollars a year in direct losses, that's not even to mention loss of livelihood and indirect losses, and this figure is eight times more than the figure of the 1960s, so we can see the cost of disasters is rapidly increasing, so therefore we can't really talk abouit increasing aid or reducing debt in Africa without taking urgent action to reduce the effects of climate change or disasters." 1.16 5. MV/INTERIOR: DELEGATES AT NEWS CONFERENCE. 1.24 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) RICHARD DIXON, DIRECTOR OF WWF SCOTLAND, SAYING: "What we've heard so far and seen so far in terms of leaked bits of it (plan of action), are that there are no real policy committments, no new policy committments in there, no real new money in there, so it is a plan of inaction, it's about further research, talking, setting up dialogue, and there's really very little action in this plan of action." 1.44 7. SCU: STEPHEN TINDALE, DIRECTOR OF GREENPEACE UK RICHARD DIXON, DIRECTOR OF WWF SCOTLAND. 1.48 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHN LANCHBERY, HEAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE RESEARCH AT THE RSPB (ROYAL SOCIETY OF PROTECTION OF BIRDS) "We have a fear that Mr Bush will actually use the technology stuff as a Trojan horse, that he will try to get in technologies irrespective of whether we like them or not, he will try to get in technolgies that are about future things, there about doing something in ten, twenty years, rather than taking action now, so we actually feel the technology text may be really really bad in that direction, it will be used to delay everything." 2.19 9. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (English) STEPHEN TINDALE, DIRECTOR OF GREENPEACE UK, SAYING: "All the signals from the White House since Bush's re-election in November, is that the U.S. position has been hardening not weakening at this point and it's almost certain... 2.39 10. WS: EXTERIOR ENTRANCE TO GLENEAGLES HOTEL. 2.47 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: GLENEAGLES, SCOTLAND, UNITED KINGDOM
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  • Country: United Kingdom
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