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联合国秘书长警告COP31:气候危机“正超越我们”Climate crisis is 'outrunning us', UN chief warns COP31

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土耳其安塔利亚,11月11日——联合国秘书长安东尼奥·古特雷斯周三在土耳其举行的COP31峰会上对世界各国领导人表示,迄今为止国际社会对气候变化的缓慢反应已将世界推向了一条毁灭之路。

ANTALYA, Turkey, Nov 11 - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey on Wednesday that the slow international response to climate change so far had placed the world on a path to destruction.

他表示,各国政府必须更加努力地奋斗,为后代保护地球。这番言论为联合国气候大会在土耳其地中海沿岸举行为期两天的密集领导人发言定下了基调。

Governments must fight harder to preserve the planet for future generations, he said, in comments that set the tone for two days of rapid-fire speeches by world leaders at the UN conference on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. "The brutal truth is that the climate crisis is outrunning us.

古特雷斯指出不断上升的排放量、全球气温以及日趋恶化的气候灾害,他说道:“残酷的事实是,气候危机正在甩开我们。这是通往相互保证毁灭的道路。”

This is the path to mutually assured destruction," Guterres said, pointing to rising emissions, global temperatures and worsening climate-driven disasters.

“但科学并不是叫我们投降。它是叫我们更努力地战斗。”来自近200个国家的谈判代表正在寻求达成一项计划,以提高电力在全球能源消费中的比重,并重振摆脱化石燃料的停滞努力。

"But science is not telling us to surrender. It is telling us to fight harder."

本次峰会于周一开幕,当时的背景是战争、失控的通货膨胀和其他争夺政治关注的危机——但也伴随着关于全球变暖速度日益令人震惊的信号。

Negotiators from nearly 200 countries are seeking agreement on a plan to increase the share of electricity in global energy use and revive stalled efforts to move away from fossil fuels.

极端天气之年联合国上个月发布的一份报告发现,世界正处于突破1.5摄氏度(2.7华氏度)变暖极限的轨道上,各国曾同意根据《巴黎协定》努力实现这一目标,以防止气候变化的最坏影响。

The summit opened on Monday against the backdrop of wars, rampant inflation and other crises that are competing for political attention – but also amid increasingly alarming signals about the pace of global warming.

与此同时,2026年也因西欧的一系列极端热浪以及尼泊尔引发灾难性洪水的冰川坍塌而引人注目,那场灾难导致1450多人死亡,数千人仍然失踪。

YEAR OF EXTREME WEATHER A UN report last month found the world on course to break through the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warming limit that countries had agreed to pursue under the Paris Agreement to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

曾主持2015年巴黎气候大会并领导一个前COP主席顾问委员会的前法国总理洛朗·法比尤斯周二表示,领导人们的发言应为谈判注入政治动力。

Meanwhile, 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.

“这是领导人发表一些声明的机会,而且这次更多的是解释他们将如何实施,因为安塔利亚的关键词是实施,”他对路透社说。

Former French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, who presided over the 2015 Paris climate conference and leads an advisory council of former COP presidents, said on Tuesday the leaders' speeches should give political impetus to the negotiations.

预计周三的演讲者将包括巴西总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦,他去年10月底连任,其国家主办了去年的气候谈判。欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯德莱恩、中国副总统韩正以及马绍尔群岛总统希尔达·海涅也将发言。

"It is an opportunity for leaders to make some announcements, and more this time, to explain how they will implement, because the key word in Antalya is implementation," he told Reuters. Wednesday's speakers are expected to include Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was re-elected at the end of October, and whose country hosted last year's climate talks.

作为全球历史上温室气体排放量最大的国家,美国已连续第二年缺席谈判。总统唐纳德·特朗普——他曾称全球变暖是骗局——在2025年重返白宫后,让美国退出了气候合作。

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, and Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine will also speak. The United States, the world's largest historical emitter of greenhouse gases, has skipped the talks for the second year in a row after President Donald Trump – who has called global warming a hoax – withdrew the US from climate cooperation following his return to office in 2025.

今年,包括法国、德国、日本、意大利和加拿大在内的几个其他国家,没有派出其最高领导人出席谈判,也不会出现在演讲名单中。

Several other nations, including France, Germany, Japan, Italy and Canada, did not send their top leaders to the talks this year and won't be represented in the speeches.

“世界上最大的经济体应该引领应对气候危机的行动,而不是把它留给他人,”气候与能源智库“非洲动力”的主任穆罕默德·阿多说。电力时代?

"The world's biggest economies should be leading the response to the climate crisis, not leaving it to others," said Mohamed Adow, director of climate and energy think tank, Power Shift Africa. AGE OF ELECTRICITY?

作为COP31东道国的土耳其一直推动各国将电气化目标置于最终协议的核心,尽管批评者称这可能对遏制升温帮助不大。

COP31 host Turkey has been pushing for countries to put a goal on electrification at the centre of a final deal, though critics say it may do little to curb warming.

该提案旨在将电力在全球总能源消费中的占比从目前略高于五分之一提高到2035年的35%,理论上可减少汽车、工厂和建筑的温室气体排放。

The proposal targets a rise in electricity's share of total global energy consumption to 35% by 2035, up from a little over a fifth now, theoretically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from cars, factories and buildings.

但该提案并未包含要求新增电力必须由清洁能源产生的表述,各国政府也尚未阐明摆脱煤炭、石油和天然气等化石燃料的更广泛计划。古特雷斯敦促各国加快向清洁能源转型。

But the proposal does not include language requiring new power to be generated by clean energy sources, and governments have yet to clarify a broader plan to transition away from fossil fuels like coal, oil and gas. Guterres urged countries to speed their transition to clean energy sources.

他表示,世界对化石燃料的依赖不仅在破坏气候,也在破坏经济——这显然是在呼应美国和以色列对伊朗的战争爆发以来石油价格的飙升,这场战争已扰乱了中东的石油出口。

He said the world’s dependence on fossil fuels was also damaging economies, not just the climate – an apparent nod to surging petroleum prices since the start of the US and Israeli war against Iran that has disrupted Middle East oil exports.

他说:“全人类有四分之三生活在进口化石燃料的国家,他们沦为自己并未制造也无法控制的价格冲击的人质。”

"Three-quarters of humanity live in countries that import fossil fuels, hostage to price shocks they did not create and cannot control," he said.

路透社援引他的话称:“近期的冲突表明,这是导致长期不稳定和生活成本崩溃的温床。”路透社

"Recent conflicts make clear that this is a recipe for chronic insecurity and a cost-of-living meltdown." REUTERS

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