外刊听读| 经济学人 巴黎气候协定破产

The world is missing its lofty climate targets-Time for realism

Related words:

1. seek to co-ordinate national efforts 寻求国际合作
2. to curb emissions of greenhouse gases 解决温室气体排放
3. catastrophic 灾难的，catastrophe 灾难
4. innundate 淹没，泛滥 inundate sth
5. monsoon 季风
6. wreck 毁坏
7. sap 使虚弱，削弱，逐渐破坏
8. lethal = mortal 致死的
9. concessionary lending 优惠贷款
10. imperative 重要的
11. regulatory 监管的
12. indemnify 保证赔偿的
13. equity 资本
14. stake 股份
15. tranche 一份，一部分
16. ravage 毁坏，严重损坏
17. refugee 逃亡者，难民

Vocabulary:

1. low-lying countries 低洼国家
2. pious adj 道貌岸然的，伪善的
3. overshoot 超过（原计划），突破（预计费用）overshoot sb by sth
4. lost cause 没有希望的事情
5. chasten 使后悔
6. plausible
7. face up to 敢于面对，勇于正视
8. cede 割让 cede sth to sb 把什么东西割让给某人
9. life-enhancing 增加生活乐趣的

Nice sentence:

1. （减少温室气体排放的失败造成了巨大的灾难）The conseuqences of world's failure to curb emissions are catastrophic. Given the lasting impact of greenhouse gasses already emitted, and the impossibility of stopping emissions overnight, climate-related diasters are proliferating, from Pakistan, much of which was inundated by summer's intense monsoon, to Florida, which just endured its dealiest hurrican since 1935. Even less lethal distortions of the weather, such as this summer's extraordinary heatwave in Europe, do enormous economic damage: impeding transport, wrecking infrastructure and sapping productivity.
2. Cutting emissions will require much more money. Now available global investments in clean energy hardly meet the demand, concentrating in rich countries, not in developing countries, which generate most of today's emissions. Concessionary lending and aid from rich countreis are essential and a moral imperative. Solar and wind power as substitue can be cheaper to build and run than more polluting types, but grids need to be rebuilt to cope with the intermittency of the sun and the wind.
3. So the government of developing countries, especially middle-income ones, will have to work with the rich world to mobilise private investment.
4. On the part of donors, it will involve focusing spending on schemes that crowd in private capital, such as idemnifying investors against political and regulatory risks, taking equity stakes in private projects and agreeing to absorb the first tranche of losses if thing go wrong.
5. (需要适应新的气候变化）Greater efforts must be made to adapt to climate change. Adaptation has always been mistrusted by activists as a distraction from cutting emissions, or, worse, an excuse not to make any cuts. But no matter what, the world now faces more floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. Preparing for these calamities is a matter of life and death, not only for developing countries, but also for rich ones. If the rich world allows global warming to ravage already fragile countires, it will inevitably end up paying a huge price in food shortages and proliferating refugees. Why not help the poorest adapt now: even modest help cna have a big impact?