红十字大会关注气候变化(2)【沪江标准VOA12-02】
【生词摘录】
Trap: n 圈套
head off:阻止
trigger: v 引发
migrant:n 候鸟,移居者
US Wants More Balanced Approach to Climate Change (2/2)
A focus and concern on climate change is entirely appropriate. We need to be careful that it is not a rush to focus on climate change to the exclusion of the traditional kinds of disasters that have caused the deaths and suffering of so many people around the world."
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the planet is warming faster than previously predicted.
The Nobel Prize winning group of scientists says carbon and other heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions must stabilize by 2015 and then decline to head off the worst consequences from climate change.
A new report by the humanitarian group Oxfam says weather-related natural disasters have risen from 120 annually in the 1980s to about 500 today.
Madeleen Helmer is Head of the Red Cross and Red Crescent climate change center in the Netherlands. She tells VOA climate change triggers weather-related disasters.
Helmer says problems caused by climate change will not go away and must be addressed.
Other issues being discussed at the conference include the humanitarian needs of migrants and internally displaced persons and ways to deal with the impact of war.
参考译文:
对气候变化的聚焦和关注是完全适当的。我们需要注意的是不可以草率的将焦点集中于气候改变而将传统上那些夺去世界上许多人生命的自然灾害排除在外。
联合国政府间气候变化专门小组发出警告,地球变暖的速度远远快于先前预计的速度。
诺贝尔奖获得者组成的科学专家组称,2015年之前,必须稳定控制碳化物等导致气温上升的温室气体排放,从而才能防止气候变化带来最糟的结果。
人道主义组织牛津饥荒救济委员会发布的一项新报告显示,20世纪80年代每年有120起同气象有关的自然灾害发生,而现在增加到每年500起。
马德林·海默尔是荷兰红十字会和红新月会气候变化中心的负责人。她在接受美国之音采访时说,气候变化会引发与气象有关的灾害。
海默尔还说,气候变化带来的问题不会减少,这必须着手解决。
会议上讨论的其他问题还包括移民和国内难民的人道主义需求,以及解决战争影响的办法。



| Real Talk 6 | 周末班 | ¥2680 | 凯恩英语口语 | ![]() |
| Real Talk 7 | 周末班 | ¥2680 | 凯恩英语口语 | ![]() |
| 商务口语班 | ¥1200 | 精华日语 | ![]() |
|
| 全封闭全日制英语口语班(常年招生) | 全日制 | ¥39000 | 珠海平和 | ![]() |


























2708
