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举世瞩目的哥本哈根峰会正在举行，气候问题，尤其是温室气体的排放，再次成为全世界的焦点，也非常值得我们这些“雅友”们关注。结合气候问题（环境问题）是雅思阅读和写作重点之一的特点，本人以《泰晤士报》有关哥本哈根峰会的一篇最新报道为例，同时辅以词汇注解和写作训练题目，特写了一篇博客与大家交流，希望能给各位在今后准备雅思阅读和写作过程中带去一些帮助。
需要补充的是，本人不大认同报道中一些有关我们中国的新闻事实，所以还是要请大家更多地从语言的角度去欣赏该英语热点时文。
具体内容如下：
From Times Online
December 9, 2009
Copenhagen summit: US will not subsidise China on climate change
注解：这里为报道标题。Copenhagen summit 哥本哈根峰会；subsidise补助
The United States is willing to pay its fair share towards a multibillion-dollar climate change accord, but would not accept American taxes ending up in China as a result, its chief climate negotiator said today.
注解：pay its fair share 支付属于自己的份额；multibillion-dollar数万亿美元； climate change accord 气候变化协议；would not accept American taxes ending up in China （意译）继续向中国征收（碳）关税；chief climate negotiator 首席气候谈判代表
Todd Stern, the State Department's climate envoy, briefed reporters after flying in to the Copenhagen climate summit where more than 100 world leaders, including President Obama, are due next week to sign an agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions and limit the effects of global warming.
注解：the State Department's climate envoy 美国国务院气候大使；briefed reporters 召开记者发布会；cap greenhouse gas emissions限制温室气体排放；global warming全球变暖
The conference has been two years in the making but after three days of talking negotiating positions appear to be hardening. Developing nations are eager to get their share of the bounty are rejecting Western demands that they too should set long-term limits to their carbon dioxide emissions.
注解：are eager to get their share of bounty急于想得到属于自己的资金优待份额；carbon dioxide emissions 二氧化碳排放
Officially, the list of developing nations includes China, which overtook the US as the world's biggest polluter two years ago and now has the world's third largest economy. Brazil is also in the developing countries group known as the G77 – which actually has 135 members – even though it will soon leapfrog Britain in the global economic rankings.
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注解：overtook the US as…超过美国成为…；leapfrog Britain超越英国；the global economic rankings 全球经济排名
The European union has called for industrialised nations to cut their carbon emissions by 30 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020. But America is promising the equivalent of a 3 per cent cut. China has offered to reduce its carbon intensity – a measure of its industrial efficiency – by up to 45 per cent by the same date, but its total emissions could still soar.
注解：industrialised nations 工业化国家；the equivalent of a 3 per cent cut 3%的减排量；carbon intensity碳（排放）密度； a measure of its industrial efficiency 衡量经济效率的尺度；soar 急剧上升
Beijing's chief negotiator, Xie Zienhua, said today that China was willing to play a constructive role at the talks, but wanted the Americans to do more for an agreement. Between them the two countries account for 40 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
注解：play a constructive role起建设性作用
"I do hope that President Obama can bring a concrete contribution to Copenhagen," Mr Xie said,
He said that China could accept a target to halve global emissions by 2050 if developed nations stepped up their mid-term targets and agreed to provide financial help to the developing world to fight climate change.
注解：bring a concrete contribution to…给…做出确实的贡献
The last point could prove to be a hurdle in Copenhagen given estimates that America is already in hock to China to the tune of about $1 trillion after running huge trade deficits for years.
注解：hurdle 障碍；be in hock to China 欠中国（指债务）；trade deficits贸易赤字
Mr Stern gave his support to a "quick start" financing scheme backed by Commonwealth leaders last week that would start with annual funding of $10 billion a year to pay for climate change mitigation schemes in the Third World.
注解：Commonwealth leaders 英联邦领导人；mitigation schemes 减排计划
But he did not expect China to be a beneficiary. "China has a dynamic economy which has led to it sitting on $2 trillion of reserves," he said. "I don't envision public funds, certainly from the United States, going to China."
注解：beneficiary收益人；reserves储备；envision打算
The American negotiator accepted that American emissions had risen significantly since 1990 and said he was conscious that the US had been historically the biggest carbon emitter, but said that Mr Obama's recent proposals would lead to a significant cut in emissions in the longer term.
注解：emitter排放国；proposals计划、提案
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But he pointed to predictions that 97 per cent of the future rise in emissions would come from developing nations, 50 per cent of it from China, which would soon be emitting far more than the United States.
注解：predictions 预测、预言
"The country whose emissions are going up dramatically – really dramatically – is China," he said. "You can't even think about solving this problem without having action from China. Our emissions are pretty much flattening out right now and then they're going down ... It's not a question of morality, just math."
注解：going up dramatically 剧烈上升；flattening out 平稳
Mr Stern suggested that the financial side of the deal would become clearer on December 18 – echoing a suggestion from the European Commission's top climate negotiator, Artur Runge-Metzger, that the endgame would be all about money.
注解：endgame最后阶段
Asked earlier how much he expected the deal would cost, Mr Runge-Metzger said: "We are simple officials here. Our ministers are coming at the weekend, followed by their heads of state. Do you think they're going to allow us to announce the figures?"
特别提醒：以上注解的词汇在雅思阅读和写作中一定很有用，请学以致用！
写作训练话题：（环保类：经济发展与环境污染的关系，环保国际参与度问题）
Some industrialised countries have serious environmental problems. The damage to the environment is an inevitable result when a country tends to improve the standing of living. To what extent do you agree or disgree?
Environmental problems are serious in many countries. It means that the only possible way to protect the environment is at an international level. To what extent do you agree or disagree on this hypothesis?
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