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
86
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
Cybercrime’Lovebug’virus,hackattacksanddatatheft,peoplenowadaysarequitefamiliarwiththosewords,astheyareo
It’sacommonknowledgethatschoolsshouldstrivetoteachthegeneralnature,orthestructure,ofasubjectratherthanallt
Thebookisusefulbecauseitoffersnotjustphilosophyandtheorybutalsoadvisingyouforeverydayliving.
Menandwomenshouldlimittheiralcohol______tolessthanabottleandahalfofwinethreedaysaweektominimizehealthrisk
Theearth’satmosphererecordedthehugedeclineinthepopulationofthewesternhemisphereinthe150yearsasfollowingthea
1986年全国人大常委会副委员长班禅喇嘛在西康地区大法会上教诲信徒们,要爱惜民族团结,维护祖国统一。在中国,公民的信仰自由受到法律保护。目前全西藏在寺僧尼约有14,000多人,另有800位宗教界人士在各级人大、政协、佛教协会和政府部门中工作。
A、migrantworkersB、povertyreductionC、remittancesD、LatinAmericaC本题是主旨题。要求考生准确把握文章的关键词。很显然,本篇文章讲的就是侨汇问题,:所以选项c是正确答案。
作弊极具诱惑,这一点并不奇怪。今日的因特网诱惑重重——有学期论文供出售,还有免费文章共摘抄,你只要鼠标轻轻一点即可。一项调查表明,30%的学生承认常在测试中作弊,另有65%的学生承认,即使教授要求他们独立完成作业,他们也会向朋友求助。我们难以相信这些年轻人
澳大利亚有成百万上千万头羊。据说每位国民人均三头羊。在澳大利亚,每年生产成千吨的羊毛。
春节是我国民问最隆重、最热闹的一个传统节日。春节时,家家户户都要做充足的准备。节前十天左右,人们就开始忙碌着采购年货,为小孩子们添置新衣新帽,准备过年时穿。另外,节前人们会在家门口贴上红纸写成的春联,屋里张贴色彩鲜艳、寓意吉祥的年画,窗户上贴着窗花,门前挂
随机试题
A.额中回后部B.额下回后部(Broca区)C.颞上回后部D.角回E.颞横回视觉性语言中枢(阅读中枢)位于
对一个人价值观的形成有决定性的影响的因素有
在我国,公民不能享有所有权的物是()。A.土地B.文物C.汽车D.房屋
患者男性,70岁,近半年来出现上腹部不适伴食欲缺乏,体重减轻。近1个月来出现皮肤巩膜黄染,并进行性加重。查体:皮肤、巩膜黄染,结膜轻度苍白,腹软无压痛,深吸气时可触及无痛性肿大胆囊。辅助检查:TBiL300μmol/L,DBiL253μmol/L。
为下列制剂选择最适宜的方法A、滴制法B、注入法C、乳化-固化法D、饱和水溶液法E、熔融法固体分散体
经过风险预警与风险处置后,要对风险预警的结果进行()。
—Willyoubeabletofinishthejobthisweek?
在统计假设检验中,同时减少α和β错误的最好的办法是()。
Justhowdoesapersonarriveatanideaofthekindofpersonthatheis?Hedevelopsthis(1)_____ofselfthroughagraduala
Howmanypeoplediedunderthelamivudinedrugtreatment?
最新回复
(
0
)