
英国议员呼吁,为应对日益增长的野火危险,英国需要新的灭火飞机并禁止使用一次性烧烤架。
New firefighting planes and disposal barbecue bans are needed to tackle the growing danger of wildfires in the UK, MPs have urged.
这一警告恰逢联合国发布新报告,警告称突破《巴黎协定》关键气候目标现在已是“迫在眉睫且不可避免”。
The warning coincides with a new United Nations report cautioning that exceeding a key Paris Agreement climate target is now "imminent and unavoidable".
环境、食品和农村事务委员会(EFRA)的议员们警告称,英国对野火威胁“准备严重不足”,此前今夏野火将房屋烧毁。
Britain is "woefully unprepared" for the threat of wildfires, MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee have warned after blazes burned homes to the ground this summer.
他们指出了英国能力的关键缺口,包括完全缺乏专用灭火飞机和供水不足,农民和志愿者往往不得不填补空缺。
They highlighted critical gaps in Britain's capabilities, including a total lack of dedicated firefighting planes and insufficient water supplies, with farmers and volunteers often having to fill in.
议员们表示,火灾应被视为“我们新现实的一部分”,他们呼吁制定新的国家野火战略,并开展澳大利亚式的公众宣传活动。
Fires should be regarded as "part of our new reality", the MPs said as they called for a new national wildfire strategy, along with an Australian-style public awareness campaign.
虽然英国大多数火灾由人为活动引起,但气候变化导致夏季越来越炎热干燥,正在增加风险。
While most UK fires are started by human activity, increasingly hot and dry summers driven by climate change are increasing the risk.
在今夏干旱最严重的时候,首相安迪·伯纳姆曾暂时禁止使用一次性烧烤架。
At the height of this summer's drought, Prime Minister Andy Burnham temporarily banned disposable BBQs.
议员们表示,未来在一年中的高风险时期,将需要此类全国性的短期限制措施。他们还警告称,灭火飞机应最早于2027年1月引入。
Such national, short-term restrictions will be needed at high-risk periods of the year in future, the MPs said. They also warned firefighting aircraft should be brought in as soon as January 2027.
委员会主席阿利斯泰尔·卡迈克尔(自由民主党)对天空新闻表示:“今夏创纪录的野火季是我国有史以来最严重的一次,英国被证明准备严重不足。
Committee chair Alistair Carmichael (Lib Dem) told Sky News: "This year's record-breaking summer of wildfires was the most devastating our country has ever seen, and Britain was shown to be woefully unprepared.
“在太多地方,我们的消防救援部门没有所需的资源,甚至没有水源来阻止火势蔓延。” 今夏的创纪录高温助长了英格兰近年野火数量第二高的纪录,威尔士和苏格兰也发生了大火。
"In too many locations our fire and rescue services didn't have the resources they needed, or even the water supply to stop fires spreading." This summer's record heat fuelled the second-highest number of wildfires in England in recent years, with major blazes in Wales and Scotland too.
在斯托布里奇,19栋房屋被毁,苏格兰凯恩戈姆国家公园、斯塔福德郡和萨福克郡的数千公顷土地也被烧毁。
In Stourbridge, 19 homes were destroyed, as were thousands of hectares in Scotland's Cairngorms National Park, Staffordshire and Suffolk.
受影响的社区向委员会讲述了时刻保持警惕带来的“累积性的心理创伤”,以及火灾发生数天后人们仍在咳出灰烬和黑色粉尘的情况。
Affected communities told the committee of the "cumulative, psychological toll" of constantly being on alert, and of people coughing up ash and black dust days after a fire.
一位政府发言人表示,提高野火防备是一项优先事项,政府已经启动了一项专业消防员的新试点计划。
A government spokesperson said improving wildfire preparedness is a priority, and it has already launched a new pilot scheme of specialist firefighters.
本周,政府将召集部长、消防部门和土地管理者举行峰会,以“了解我们如何能够加强对这一日益增加风险的应对”。
This week it is convening a summit of ministers, fire services and land managers to "understand how we can strengthen the response to this increasing risk".
气候突破应“尽可能小且短” 与此同时,联合国环境规划署(UNEP)表示,世界很快将无法实现将升温限制在工业化前水平以上1.5摄氏度的目标,即使在最理想的情景下也将达到至少1.7摄氏度。
Climate breach should be 'small and short as possible' Meanwhile, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said the world would soon blow through the goal of limiting warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, reaching at least 1.7C even in a best-case scenario.
这一温度阈值是具有里程碑意义的2015年联合国《巴黎协定》的关键部分。
This temperature threshold was a key part of the landmark 2015 UN Paris Agreement.
科学家表示,超过1.5摄氏度将导致日益频繁和强烈的极端天气事件,包括热浪、干旱、野火和洪水,并且新的化石燃料项目与这一限制不相容。
Scientists say exceeding 1.5C will lead to increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, and that new fossil fuel projects are incompatible with that limit.
即将卸任的联合国秘书长古特雷斯表示,突破目标并不意味着进一步的努力是徒劳的。“超标不等于投降,”他说。
The outgoing UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said breaching the target does not mean further effort is futile. "Overshoot is not surrender," he said.
“我们仍然可以将其控制得尽可能小、尽可能短——并在本世纪末前将气温拉回1.5摄氏度以下。” 但扭转这一趋势将需要比预测大得多的减排幅度。领导人预计将于下个月在土耳其举行的联合国第31届气候变化大会(COP31)上讨论这一议题。
"We can still keep it as small and as short as possible - and bring temperatures back below 1.5C by the end of the century." But reversing the trend will require vastly deeper cuts to emissions than forecast. Leaders are due to discuss the topic at the UN COP31 climate summit in Turkey next month.