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Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by
Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by
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2013-10-31
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问题
Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.
The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that human-influenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (营养不良) and heat-related health problems.
But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions.
Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030.
Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的).”
However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty.
In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report.
What does Kofi Annan say should be the focus of the Copenhagen conference?
选项
A、How human and economic losses from climate change can be reduced.
B、How rich countries can better help poor regions reduce climate hazards.
C、How emissions of heat-trapping gases can be reduced on a global scale.
D、How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming.
答案
B
解析
根据题干中的Annan和focus将本题出处定位于末段首句。末段首句提到,安南强调协商(the negotiations指的是哥本哈根会议上的协商)的重点是加强资金从富裕地区到贫穷地区的流动,帮助提高贫困地区应付气候灾害的能力。由此可知,安南认为怎样使富国更好地帮助贫困地区减少气候灾害是哥本哈根会议的重点,故答案为B)。文中只是说,据报告得知,90%以上的由气候变化导致的人力和经济损失发生在贫困地区,并未说怎样减少这些损失是哥本哈根会议的重点,故排除A)。安南提到要控制吸热气体的排放,但并未说如何减少排放是哥本哈根会议的重点,故排除C)。安南强调的是富裕地区的做法:如何帮助贫困地区,如何控制温室气体的排放,并未涉及贫困地区怎么做的问题.故排除D)。
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