首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Climate change threatens sustainable development and all eight Millennium Development Goals. The international community agreed
Climate change threatens sustainable development and all eight Millennium Development Goals. The international community agreed
admin
2016-10-20
79
问题
Climate change threatens sustainable development and all eight Millennium Development Goals. The international community agreed at the beginning of the new millennium to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty by 2015. Yet, today, climate change is already responsible for forcing some fifty million additional people to go hungry and driving over ten million additional people into extreme poverty. Between one-fifth and one-third of Official Development Assistance is in climate-sensitive sectors and thereby highly exposed to climate risks.
To avert the worst outcomes of climate change, adaptation efforts need to be scaled up by a factor of more than 100 in developing countries. The only way to reduce the present human impact is through adaptation. But funding for adaptation in developing countries is not even one percent of what is needed. The multilateral funds that have been pledged for climate change adaptation funding currently amount to under half a billion US dollars.
Despite the lack of funding, some cases of successful adaptation do provide a glimmer of hope. Bangladesh is one such example. Cyclone Sidr, which struck Bangladesh in 2007, demonstrates how well adaptation and prevention efforts can pay off. Disaster preparation measures, such as early warning systems and storm-proof houses, minimized damage and destruction. Cyclone Sidr’s still considerable death toll of 3,400, and economic damages of $ 1. 6 billion, nevertheless compare favourably to the similar scale cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar in 2008, resulting in close to 150, 000 deaths and economic losses of around $ 4 billion.
Solutions do also exist for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, some even with multiple benefits. For instance, black carbon from soot, released by staple energy sources in poor communities, is likely causing as much as 18 percent of warming. The provision of affordable alternative cooking stoves to the poor can, therefore, have both positive health results, since smoke is eliminated, and an immediate impact on reducing emissions, since soot only remains in the atmosphere for a few weeks. Integrating strategies between adaptation, mitigation, development and disaster risk reduction can and must be mutually reinforcing. Climate change adaptation, mitigation, humanitarian assistance and development aid underpin each other, but are supported by different sets of institutions, knowledge centres, policy frameworks and funding mechanisms. These policies are essential to combat the human impact of climate change, but their links to one another have received inadequate attention.
The word "underpin" (para. 4) is closest in meaning to______.
选项
A、complement
B、offset
C、support
D、underscore
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/RdcO777K
本试题收录于:
NAETI中级口译笔试题库外语翻译证书(NAETI)分类
0
NAETI中级口译笔试
外语翻译证书(NAETI)
相关试题推荐
AGreatFriendshipThomasJeffersonandJamesMadisonmetin1776.Couldithavebeenanyotheryear?Theyworkedtogetherst
Lastyear,over700peoplewerekilledinKarachi’sviolence.Inthepastthreemonthsthefigurehas【C1】______300.Businessmen
Nowadays,theinternetishelpingmillionsofspontaneouscommunitiestobloom,suchkindofcommunitiesaredefinedbycommoni
Whenwaterisscarce,lizardsmayreducetheirmovementsandremaininthatconditionfor______periodsoftime.
Theearth’satmosphererecordedthehugedeclineinthepopulationofthewesternhemisphereinthe150yearsasfollowingthea
Oneofthebigmovementsinfarmingpracticeoverrecentyearsistowardsgrazingpracticethatrespondtoclimate.
中国拥有自己的体育传统。大约在公元11世纪宋朝的时候,人们开始玩一种叫做“蹴鞠”的游戏。这个游戏被认为是古代足球的起源,在当时非常流行,女性们也自成一队,玩得兴高采烈。现在,您该明白为什么我们现在的女子足球队那么厉害了。//在北京,有许许多多精彩
A、Itwouldbedullanddepressing.B、Itwouldbecomfortableandhealthy.C、Itwouldbestrangeandsurprising.D、Itwouldbesp
自父母离异后,我从一个娇生惯养的孩子,转变成了一个通情达理的大学生。父母离异前,我指望着母亲服侍我。她为我洗衣、做饭、洗碗,甚至为我铺床。我15岁时父亲离开了我们,之后一切都变了。母亲找了份全职工作供养我们,我成了家里有时间做家务的人。另外,我在周末兼职挣
根据“十五”期间的形势和任务,《纲要》提出今后五年经济和社会发展的主要目标是:国民经济保持较快发展速度,经济结构战略性调整取得明显成效,经济增长质量和效益显著提高,为到2010年国内生产总值比2000年翻一番奠定坚实基础。国有企业建立现代企业制度取得重大进
随机试题
Primarybatteriesofcellsarethosethat,once______,arediscarded.
关于氟的安全性,说法错误的是
肺弥散功能障碍最常出现
甲、乙、丙三个股东组建了A有限责任公司。后甲因为欠债,自身财产不足清偿其债务,在其债权人的请求下,法院决定强制执行甲在A公司的股权。下列说法正确的有()。
下列属于商业银行资产管理内容的是()。
电影是集体创作的产物,电影字幕翻译如果变成了译者毫无顾忌的个人秀,只会_______,_______了电影的观赏性,从而也降低了电影的商业价值。填入划横线部分最恰当的一项是:
受国际金融危机等不利因素的影响,今年各大单位的招人数量减少,大学生找工作普遍比往年要难。尽管政府部门想方设法为广大学子提供各种就业机会,但解决问题的根源还在求职者本身。大学生大多缺乏实践能力,想一毕业就能拿到高薪确实不太现实,所以不妨先到“小庙”就业,经过
(2011年真题)甲因抢劫被公安机关追捕,逃至朋友乙家,对乙说:“公安要抓我,想在你这里躲几天。”乙遂收留甲在家。乙的行为构成
简述大赦与特赦的区别。
Languageshavetwogenerallevelsofusage:acorrectlevelandanincorrectlevel
最新回复
(
0
)