四个国家——沙特阿拉伯、俄罗斯、阿根廷和巴西——被指在亚美尼亚埃里温举行的《生物多样性公约》第十七次缔约方大会（COP17）上削弱联合国生物多样性科学。
Four countries, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Argentina and Brazil, are accused of weakening UN biodiversity science at COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia.
争议的核心在于，各国应当“欢迎”还是仅“注意到”生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台（IPBES）关于自然、气候和经济的两份报告。
The dispute centres on whether nations should “welcome” or only “take note” of two IPBES reports on nature, climate and the economy.
代表和专家警告，这可能开创有害先例，使自然政策缺乏坚实的科学基础。
Delegates and experts warn this could set a harmful precedent and leave nature policy without a strong scientific base.
【人工智能生成】埃里温——联合国生物多样性谈判进入最后几天，政治紧张局势不断升级，少数国家被指试图削弱支撑全球自然政策的科学基础。
AI generated YEREVAN - Political tensions are mounting in the final days of the United Nations biodiversity talks with a handful of countries accused of trying to weaken the science that underpins global nature policy.
围绕科学作用的争执愈演愈烈，令资深谈判代表感到不安。此前，依赖化石燃料的国家曾试图推迟政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）这一全球气候变化权威机构的报告。
The growing feud over the role of science has alarmed veteran negotiators and follows recent efforts by fossil fuel-reliant nations to delay reports by the IPCC, the global authority on climate change.
“这里正在发生的事，和IPCC那边的情况一样，”一位法国政府代表在亚美尼亚埃里温的COP17峰会上说。该代表要求匿名，以便讨论正在进行的谈判。
“The same thing is happening here as what is taking place with the IPCC,” said a French government delegate at the COP17 summit in Yerevan, Armenia. The delegate requested anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations.
该代表说，四个国家——沙特阿拉伯、俄罗斯、阿根廷和巴西——正在阻碍进展。
The delegate said four countries – Saudi Arabia, Russia, Argentina and Brazil – were frustrating progress.
抵制针对的是联合国支持的IPBES生物多样性小组的两份科学评估，内容涉及自然危机与气候危机之间的重叠，以及驱动二者的经济力量。
The pushback is directed at two scientific assessments by the UN-backed IPBES biodiversity panel on the overlap between the nature and climate crises and the economic forces driving them.
这位法国代表补充说，近200个国家本应就这些具有里程碑意义的发现应如何指导自然保护工作达成一致，但一些国家“不想承认它们”。
Nearly 200 nations were due to agree how these landmark findings should guide efforts to protect nature but some countries “did not want to acknowledge them”, the French delegate added.
另一位来自发达国家的谈判代表告诉法新社，这四个国家也是这一抵制行动的主导者。
A negotiator from another developed nation told AFP these four countries were also leading this push.
“俄罗斯、沙特、阿根廷，以及在一定程度上巴西，显然结成了联盟，共同试图淡化IPBES报告，而不是欢迎它们，或者把它们当作其他谈判议题中的筹码，”这位要求匿名的谈判代表说。
“There is a clear alliance of Russia, Saudi, Argentina and, to some extent, Brazil, all working together to try to water down IPBES reports, not welcome them, or use them as bargaining chips in other negotiation items,” the negotiator said on condition of anonymity.
树立先例 这场争议大体上归结为一份草案协议中的几段文字，以及各国是否应“欢迎”还是“注意”IPBES的研究结果。
Setting precedent Much of the dispute boils down to a few paragraphs of text in a draft agreement and whether countries should “welcome” or “take note” of the IPBES findings.
后一种表述在联合国谈判的语言中被认为要弱得多，那里的每一个字都受到严格审视。法国代表表示，目前的草案是“一份缺乏雄心的文本”。
The latter phrasing is considered far weaker in the language of UN negotiations, where every word is closely scrutinised. The current draft was “a text without ambition”, said the French delegate.
“如果我们不再有科学依据可循，那么我们在这里讨论的一切都仅仅是个人意见，”该代表补充说。
“If we no longer have a scientific basis to work from, then everything we discuss here is merely a matter of opinion,” the delegate added.
COP17上的学者和公民社会活动人士已经就谈判现状发表了一份联合关切声明。
Academics and civil society activists at COP17 have already issued a joint statement of concern at the state of negotiations.
在叶里温被法新社采访时，IPBES主席大卫·奥比拉表示，由于谈判仍在进行中，他不予置评。
When approached by AFP in Yerevan, IPBES chair David Obura declined to comment as the talks were still ongoing.
尽管峰会预计于10月30日结束，但包括科学问题在内的若干悬而未决事项仍未解决。
Although the summit is due to end on Oct 30, a number of outstanding matters – including around the science – remain unresolved.
这场争议反映了基于共识的全球谈判中日益增长的一种模式，产油国被指责阻碍应对化石燃料、塑料垃圾及其他环境危害的努力。
The dispute echoes a growing pattern in consensus-based global negotiations, where oil-producing countries are accused of frustrating efforts to tackle fossil fuels, plastic trash and other environmental harm.
气候科学长期以来一直是争议焦点，目前IPCC陷入僵局，因为包括沙特阿拉伯和印度在内的多国推动推迟发布其关于全球变暖的下一套基准报告。
Climate science has long been a flashpoint and the IPCC is currently deadlocked, as countries including Saudi Arabia and India push to delay publication of its next set of benchmark reports on global warming.
在2025年的一次前所未有的决定中，旗舰联合国科学报告《全球环境展望》的一份关键摘要被否决，因为各国在化石燃料问题上争执不下。
In an unprecedented decision in 2025, a crucial summary of the Global Environment Outlook, a flagship UN scientific report, was torpedoed as nations rowed over fossil fuels.
“我们几乎总是看到IPCC报告被政治化……”，一位发达国家的谈判代表说。
“We’ve pretty much always seen IPCC reports being politicised...,” said the negotiator from the developed country.
“但在生物多样性领域，直到过去几年，尤其是本次COP，它们才变得如此具有争议性。”
“But in the biodiversity world they’ve been much less contentious until the last few years, and this COP in particular.”
“它们从来都不容易，没有哪个决定是容易的。语言上总会有吹毛求疵的争论——但情况已经糟糕得多了。”伦敦动物学会高级政策专家贝桑·劳夫林亲身观察了COP17谈判，她说这一趋势令人担忧。
“They’re never easy, no decision is. There’s always nitpicking over language – but it’s gotten far worse.”Bethan Laughlin, a senior policy specialist for the Zoological Society of London who observed the COP17 negotiations firsthand, said the trend was worrying.
“关键不在于这份特定文本本身，尽管它极具重要意义。关键在于它树立的先例，”她在埃里温对法新社表示。
“The point really isn’t this particular text, although it is highly significant. The point is the precedent it sets,” she told AFP in Yerevan.