英国外交大臣周三表示，对化石燃料的依赖会损害国家安全，并援引地缘政治冲突带来的经济冲击为例，在土耳其举行的COP31气候峰会上敦促加快向清洁能源转型。
The British foreign secretary said Wednesday that dependence on fossil fuels undermines national security, citing the economic fallout from geopolitical conflicts, and urged the accelerated transition to clean energy at the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye.
埃德·米利班德在“清洁能源转型与电气化峰会”上发表讲话时说，对英国而言，自20世纪70年代以来该国一半的经济衰退都是由化石燃料危机引发的。
In his speech at the “Clean Energy Transition & Electrification Summit,” Ed Miliband said that, for Britain, half of the country's recessions since the 1970s have been caused by fossil-fuel crises.
“即便是全球最大的化石燃料生产国美国也无法幸免。副总统（JD）万斯曾表示，伊朗战争对选民产生了实实在在的影响，”他在土耳其地中海城市安塔利亚说。
"Even the world’s largest fossil-fuel producer, the United States, is not immune. Vice President (JD) Vance has said the Iran war has had real effects on voters," he said in the Mediterranean city of Antalya.
他指出，只要依赖化石燃料，就不可能有安全，因为你会受制于你无法通过地缘政治冲突控制的化石燃料过山车。米利班德说，世界在伊朗战争和俄乌战争中经历了这一点。
There can be no security while you depend on fossil fuels, because you are subject to the fossil-fuel rollercoaster you do not control through geopolitical conflict, he noted. Miliband said the world experienced it with the Iran war and Russia-Ukraine war.
但他补充说，清洁能源电气化如今已成为化石燃料的替代选择，而过去并非如此。
But he added that clean-energy electrification is now an alternative to fossil fuels, which was not in the past.
“我赞赏土耳其主席国将这一理念置于COP31核心的远见。而且应当说，这之所以可能，只是因为过去二十年我们在清洁能源价格上看到了非凡的转变，”米利班德指出。
"I applaud the Turkish Presidency for their vision in putting this idea at the center of COP31. And it’s right to say it’s only possible because of the extraordinary transformation we’ve seen over the last two decades in the price of clean energy," noted Miliband.
“我只想说一件非常简单的事：作为外交大臣，这（气候崩溃）是一个国家安全问题，”他补充道。
"And I just want to say one very simple thing: as a foreign minister, this (climate breakdown) is a national security issue," he added.
米利班德说，现在是所有外交部长和总理都将其视为国家安全问题的时候了，“因为无论是粮食安全、基础设施安全，还是人口流离失所——这些都具有深远的国家安全影响。”他补充说：“我们必须让清洁能源电气化的时代真正成熟起来。”
Miliband said it is time that all foreign ministers and prime ministers see it as a national security issue, "because whether it’s food security, infrastructure security, population displacement -- these have profound national security implications." "We must make the era of clean-energy electrification come of age," he added.