The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.
出自-2017年6月阅读原文
Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Moreover, nonparticipation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.
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For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.
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Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
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Teachers need to be much better paid to attract the best college graduates to the nation's worst schools.
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Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations' economic development.
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Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.
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Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poisonfree food.
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A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.
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With competition from many countries, Antarctica is no longer dominated by the traditional white nations.
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This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.
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The research stations on King George lsland offer a glimpse into the long game on this ice-blanketed continent as nations assert themselves, eroding the sway long held by countries like the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
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The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.
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Nations are also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global navigation abilities.
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More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.
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It will motivate all nations to reduce carbon emissions.
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However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.
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For the first time, the world's nations agreed to keep global warming well below 2 ℃.
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Encouraging high-emitting nations to take the initiative.
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Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate free-riders: causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate change's impact on food and water.
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Colombia said this year that it planned to join other South American nations with bases in Antarctica.
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Calling on all the nations concerned to make joint efforts.
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Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.
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And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.
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Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.
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In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.
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A new term is created to address African AmericansAll ethnic groups share the nation's continued progress.
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Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men.
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Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.
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Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕)and age profile.
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In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component
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In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries
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Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations
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By 1973, domestic US sources of oil were peaking, and the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running.
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Oil prices may exert influence not only on American government policies but on how energy is used in the nation
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Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (学徒) programs for high school students.
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Then, in 1973, the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to stop selling oil to the United States.
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These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations.
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A Nation That's Losing Its Toolbox The scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause
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What can the West's overly indebted and sluggish (经济滞长的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia?
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The United States once had the highest graduation rate of any nation.
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As the nation moves further into the Obama presidency, will politically engaged young people continue to support the president and his agenda, or will they gradually drift away?
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Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
30 people were present, and all, except me, me from the island called McClure in the nation of nut.
2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex c
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Palau has only been an independent nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection.
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Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care
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The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine sanctuary in the world.
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The tiny island nation has set aside 500, 000 square kilometers 80 percent—of its maritime territory, for full protection.
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