土耳其安塔利亚11月9日电——随着气温上升和气候引发的灾难不断增加正威胁着人类生命与全球经济，COP31气候峰会领导人于周一在土耳其举行为期两周的年度会议开幕式之际，敦促世界加快应对全球变暖的步伐。
ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 9 - Leaders of the COP31 climate summit urged the world to accelerate the fight against global warming as rising temperatures and an increasing number of climate-driven disasters threaten lives and the global economy, as the annual meeting began in Turkey on Monday.
这次联合国为期两周的会议在开幕时的言论呼吁各国政府关注气候问题，尽管战争、飙升的通货膨胀以及人工智能的不确定性等其他国际危机也在分散它们的注意力。
The comments at the start of the two-week UN conference were an appeal to governments to focus on climate, even as other international crises from war to soaring inflation and the uncertainty of AI compete for their attention.
联合国气候变化执行秘书西蒙·斯蒂尔（Simon Stiell）在土耳其地中海沿岸举行的开幕活动准备发言中表示：“此时此刻的紧迫性必须推动我们向前迈进。”他补充说，目前的进展“远不够快”。联合国环境规划署10月发布的一份报告显示，世界已经势必将超过前工业化时期1.5摄氏度的变暖阈值。该阈值是2015年巴黎气候峰会上为避免变暖的最严重后果而设定的。
"The urgency of this moment must drive us forward," UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said in prepared remarks for the opening of the event on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast, adding that progress so far was "nowhere near fast enough." A report by the United Nations Environment Programme published in October said the world was already set to overshoot 1.5C of warming above pre-industrial times, the threshold set at the 2015 Paris climate summit to avoid the worst consequences of warming.
联合国周一发布的一份报告显示，在强烈的厄尔尼诺现象推动下，今年有望成为有记录以来最热的四个年份之一。2026年也因西欧的一系列极端热浪和尼泊尔引发毁灭性洪水的冰川崩塌而引人注目，该洪水造成1450多人死亡，数千人仍然失踪。
This year is on track to be one of the four hottest on record, driven by a powerful El Niño, a UN report showed on Monday. 2026 has also stood out with a series of extreme heatwaves across Western Europe and a glacier collapse in Nepal that triggered a catastrophic flood killing more than 1,450 people, with thousands still missing.
土耳其的COP31主席国今年峰会的重点是实现一个目标：到2035年将全球经济中超过三分之一的部门实现电气化，高于目前的五分之一左右。该国正在要求各国签署支持该目标的承诺。
Turkey’s COP31 presidency has focused this year’s summit on a goal to electrify more than a third of the global economy by 2035, up from around a fifth today. It is asking nations to sign onto a pledge supporting that target.
从理论上讲，这样一个目标可以通过加速全球从化石燃料动力汽车、熔炉、锅炉、炉灶和其他温室气体排放设备向清洁能源的转变，来帮助减少导致地球变暖的排放。
Theoretically, such a goal could help reduce planet-warming emissions by speeding the global shift away from fossil fuel-powered vehicles, furnaces, boilers, cooking stoves, and other greenhouse gas-emitting equipment.
土耳其COP31主席穆拉特·库伦（Murat Kurum）在准备好的发言中表示：“我们希望人们能在日常生活中感受到气候谈判的结果：在消耗更少能源的建筑中、在清洁的公共交通中、在他们买得起的能源中以及在新的就业机会中。”
"We want people to feel the results of climate talks in daily life: in buildings that use less energy, in clean public transport, in energy they can afford and in new jobs," Turkey’s COP31 President Murat Kurum said in prepared remarks.
但气候倡导者批评了这项承诺，因为它并不要求额外的电力来自低碳来源，这引发了一场关于单纯的电气化是否应算作气候进展的早期争端。
But climate advocates have criticised the pledge because it does not require the additional electricity to come from low-carbon sources, setting up an early fight over whether electrification alone should count as climate progress.
战争与科技 伊朗战争凸显了世界对化石燃料的依赖，俄罗斯对乌克兰的入侵以及随之而来对莫斯科能源出口的制裁也是如此，尽管一些人表示，这些战争也展示了转向可再生能源的好处。
WAR AND TECH The Iran war has underscored the world’s attachment to fossil fuels, as has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing sanctions on Moscow’s energy exports, though some say the wars have also shown the benefits of moving to renewables.
已进入第九个月的伊朗战争严重扰乱了通过霍尔木兹海峡的中东石油运输，推高了全球燃料价格，并引发了一场对新供应的争夺。
The Iran war, now in its ninth month, severely disrupted Middle East oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, lifting fuel prices around the globe and prompting a scramble for new supplies.
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的政府连续第二年冷落气候谈判，该政府鼓励采取最大化石油、天然气和煤炭生产的政策，以应对中东的供应中断。
US President Donald Trump’s administration — which is shunning climate talks for the second year running — has encouraged policies maximising oil, gas, and coal production to address the Mideast disruptions.
与此同时，韩国、印度、泰国和其他亚洲国家也增加了对煤炭的依赖，或采取了促进燃煤发电的步骤。
South Korea, India, Thailand and other Asian nations, meanwhile, have also increased their reliance on coal or taken steps to boost coal-fired power generation.
曾在巴拉克·奥巴马担任美国总统期间担任科学顾问的哈佛大学的约翰·霍尔德伦（John Holdren）表示：“许多以前可能不好意思为继续大量使用化石燃料进行辩护的人，现在觉得有底气提出这种观点了。”
"A lot of people who previously might have been embarrassed to argue for continuing very high use of fossil fuel are now feeling empowered to make that case," said John Holdren of Harvard University, who was a science adviser to Barack Obama when he was US president.
与此同时，在来自中国的廉价清洁技术出口激增的推动下，可再生能源的部署也有所增加，这令雄心勃勃的气候行动倡导者感到振奋。斯蒂尔在峰会上表示，可再生能源是改善能源安全的明确答案。
At the same time, the deployment of renewable energy has also risen, driven by surging exports of cheap clean tech from China, cheering advocates for ambitious climate action. Stiell told the summit renewables were the clear answer to improving energy security.
他说：“今年的化石燃料成本混乱引发了一场全球冲击波，沉重打击了各户家庭，并像癌症一样蔓延了通货膨胀。”
"This year’s fossil fuel cost chaos has delivered a global shockwave, hitting households hard and spreading inflation like a cancer," he said.
他补充说：“但解决方案是清晰的，”并称可再生能源装置为全球经济节省了数千亿美元。
"But the solutions are clear," he added, saying renewable energy installations had saved the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars.
人工智能的快速推出也使谈判变得复杂，导致全球电力需求激增，并助长了温室气体排放的上升。
The rapid rollout of AI is also complicating talks, driving a surge in global power demand and contributing to rising greenhouse gas emissions.
*土耳其将在COP31上呼吁政府、企业和其他机构签署一项承诺，概述确保人工智能可持续开发和部署的原则。
Turkey will call on governments, businesses and other institutions at COP31 to sign a pledge outlining principles to ensure AI is developed and deployed sustainably.
澳大利亚COP31谈判主席克里斯·鲍恩（Chris Bowen）表示，他希望这次会议能向世界展示多边主义是行之有效的。
Chris Bowen, Australia’s president of COP31 negotiations, said he hoped the conference would show the world that multilateralism works.
他说：“巴黎协定正在发挥作用。”他指的是旨在限制全球变暖的2015年具有里程碑意义的协议。“但我们必须采取更快的行动。”
"Paris is working," he said, referring to the landmark 2015 deal to limit global warming. "But we must move faster."