时间:2019-01-14 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2012年(十二月)


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Developing Countries Want Rich Nations to Pay for Climate Change



Delegates from nearly 200 countries - rich and poor - are in Doha to extend the Kyoto Protocol 1, the 1997 global climate change agreement that expires at the end of this month, and to begin to forge a new agreement to replace it.


Two issues block the way forward. Developing countries are demanding that industrialized nations fulfill 2 their pledges under Kyoto to reduce their climate-changing industrial emissions 4 of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, and to put new, larger emission 3 curbs 5 on the table.


The developing nations, led by China, are also insisting that rich nations provide more aid to poorer countries to help them cope with the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and more violent storms. 


In Doha Wednesday, Tim Gore 6, a climate change policy advisor 7 for Oxfam International, a confederation of groups working on social justice issues, applauded efforts by England, Germany and Sweden to increase their climate aid and expects other nations to follow. 


“Those announcements are truly welcome. And they shine a spotlight 8 on those that have remained silent: the U.S., Canada, Japan, even Australia," Gore said. "But we need to be very clear as well that those types of announcements made in press conferences can be no substitute for clear commitments in the text that poor countries have come here to negotiate.”


According to Gore, poor countries need funds to help them switch to cleaner energy sources and to adapt to a warmer world.


“We need at a bare minimum to know that the public finance that the developed countries are providing to poor countries to fight climate change increases next year," he said, "and keeps increasing every year until we reach $100 billion by 2020, $100 billion per year by 2020.”


At U.N. Climate talks in 2009, delegates agreed that money would go into a Green Climate Fund. Gore says so far, the biggest players - the United States and the European Union - have not resolved exactly how they will provide the promised dollars. But a U.S. negotiator in Doha says the Obama Administration continues to support climate finance.


United Nations Secretary General United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged delegates do resolve the issue. 


“For the simple reason that it affects all people increasingly and profoundly. If we act together with a clear purpose, we can meet the challenge," he said. "But we need to be united, governments from all regions, businesses, and civil societies. We have a clear choice: stand together or fall together.””


Ban has been meeting with a group of key countries to emphasize the importance of an agreement on long-term financing. The U.N. Secretary-General said Wednesday that he plans to convene 9 a high-level meeting in 2014 aimed at speeding sluggish 10 international efforts to combat climate change.


The U.N. climate change talks in Doha end Friday.




n.议定书,草约,会谈记录,外交礼节
  • We must observe the correct protocol.我们必须遵守应有的礼仪。
  • The statesmen signed a protocol.那些政治家签了议定书。
vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意
  • If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
  • This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
n.发出物,散发物;发出,散发
  • Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施,降低污染物排放总量。
  • Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后,指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
v.限制,克制,抑制( curb的第三人称单数 )
  • In executing his functions he is not bound by any legal curbs on his power. 在他履行职务时,他的权力是不受任何法律约束的。 来自辞典例句
  • Curbs on air travel were being worked out and would shortly be announced. 限制航空旅行的有关规定正在拟定中,不久即将公布。 来自辞典例句
n.凝血,血污;v.(动物)用角撞伤,用牙刺破;缝以补裆;顶
  • The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
  • Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
v.集合,召集,召唤,聚集,集合
  • The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
  • Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月,高级官员在伦敦会齐。
adj.懒惰的,迟钝的,无精打采的
  • This humid heat makes you feel rather sluggish.这种湿热的天气使人感到懒洋洋的。
  • Circulation is much more sluggish in the feet than in the hands.脚部的循环比手部的循环缓慢得多。
学英语单词
2-naphthoxyacetic acid
a very knave
accounting trend
acetphenetidines
activation of a procedure
alkanoates
alphabetic punch
alveolar bone chisel
amount to little
Archangium
bacterial oxidation
banyule
bubbe-meises
bulat
byte format
cecocoloplicopexy
celastus flagellaris rupr.
Cevizli
clock modeling
color goods
compensation for condemned property
counterdiscourse
cyanogen
design representation
displacement-current
Double-Bubba ticket, double-Bubba ticket
duckings
electro-anastomosis
entrance of infection
equal-area figures
ethyl glycol acetate
expiration file
fineness of reading
fire-fights
fluorescence thin layer
gentleman-usher
gin-shop
glory lilies
go to bye - bye
Grudie
haemaphysalis longicornis
hypervibrations
inferior conjunctival fornix
inferobranch
informed-consent
instalment and interest charge
instant messages
investment cycle
Ironwood Seamount
kam
Kirkcowan
knee-tremblers
kyrosite
lacel disposing screen
lap-dancing
leaching ratio
librement
little sugar pine
load carrying vehicle
loaded stream
lowest splanchnic nerve
mediaevalisms
Mokoreta
moskin
multifarious
Muslim architecture
N/P ratio
Neisseria intracellularis
neutral mutation random drift hypothesis
noraml connection
opticociliary neurotomy
phenethylamine
phenylformic acid
polyostotic
poophilus grisescens
port-o-potty
prensor
primary collision
psychognosis
radiation strength distribution
redirecting bucket
rough-wrought
saltatory
saresnet
second-choice
Selemion
socio-economical
sodoms
sort-by-insertion method
space division multiplexing
state-selecting device
strategic objectives
suckerlike
tardy male
transformatives
Ulldemolins
utmost good faith
veneredogical
ventricular filling
water gage glass
water stopping copper
white illuminant