加州州长加文·纽森在COP31峰会上警告称，民主党在国会的大胜并不意味着未来两年清洁能源将取得无缝胜利。
Democrats’ sweep of Congress doesn’t mean a seamless victory for clean energy over the next two years, California Gov. Gavin Newsom warned COP31.
“我不想美化这将意味着什么。我不指望他们会做任何事情，只会加倍坚持现有立场，”纽森说，并补充称州和地方领导人需要“坚持下去”，并在未来两年继续推进他们自己的清洁能源倡议。周四，明尼苏达州州长蒂姆·沃尔兹、新墨西哥州州长米歇尔·卢汉·格里沙姆以及约十几位市长与他一同出席了峰会。参议员谢尔登·怀特豪斯（民主党-罗德岛州）以及由众议员肖恩·卡斯滕（民主党-伊利诺伊州）率领的一众众议员将于明天出席峰会。他们是唯一出席COP31的美国民选官员，该峰会没有联邦政府代表。
“I don’t want to romanticize what this will mean. I don’t expect they’ll do anything but double down,” Newsom said, adding that state and local leaders need to “hold on” and continue working on their own clean energy initiatives for the next two years. He was joined at the summit on Thursday by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and about a dozen mayors. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI., and a group of House members led by Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill., will attend the summit tomorrow. Together they’re the only US elected officials to attend COP31, which has no federal representation.
沃尔兹则更为乐观：“他们只需要退到一边，现在他们要设置障碍将困难得多，”他说。
Walz was more optimistic: “They need to just get out of the way, and it will be much more difficult for them to put up barriers now,” he said.
与此同时，其他世界领导人在主会场表达了广泛的观点。英国首相安迪·伯纳姆承诺将开启“英国领导力的新时代”，而委内瑞拉代理总统德尔西·罗德里格斯坚称其国拥有“主权权利”生产更多石油，伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽希齐扬则表示美国应为其国家战争造成的环境破坏支付赔偿。
Meanwhile, other world leaders expressed a wide range of views on the main podium. UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised “a new era of British leadership,” while Venezuela’s acting president Delcy Rodríguez insisted her country has a “sovereign right” to produce more oil, and Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said the US should pay compensation for environmental damage caused by the war in his country. — Tim McDonnell