在本周通讯中：专家表示，会议太多，决定太少——而时间正在耗尽当环境峰会进展不顺时，组织者常常告诉代表们“全世界都在关注”，试图让大家集中注意力。但只要在亚美尼亚举行的生物多样性缔约方大会第17次会议上待上一段时间，就会清楚地发现，全世界的注意力在别处。
In this week’s newsletter: There are too many meetings, and not enough decisions, say experts – and time is running out When things are not going well at an environmental summit, organisers often tell delegates that the “world is watching” in an attempt to focus minds.
埃里温子午线中心的谈判大厅气氛沉闷。来自世界各地的环境部长们已经抵达，商讨如何应对一个现实：他们距离四年前商定的生物多样性目标已经落后太多。目前，他们似乎注定无法实现其中几乎所有目标。他们有可能延续一项惨淡的纪录：从未实现过自己设定的任何一项生物多样性目标。
But spend any time at biodiversity Cop17 in Armenia and it is clear that the world’s attention is elsewhere. The negotiating halls of Yerevan’s Meridian centre are subdued. Environment ministers have arrived from all corners of the world to plan their response to being so far behind the biodiversity targets they agreed four years ago. Right now, they appear on track to miss nearly all of them.
气候危机将摧毁我们的经济——我们20年前就知道了。我们何时才会行动？
They risk continuing the miserable record of never having met a biodiversity target they have set for themselves. The climate crisis will destroy our economies – we learned this 20 years ago.
科学家警告，今年夏天高温在欧洲城市造成“惊人的”5万人死亡。愤怒的工党议员敦促领导层不要在罗斯班克问题上否决能源大臣
When will we act? Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn Angry Labour MPs urge leadership not to overrule energy secretary on Rosebank