新西兰英语 134 Carbon Emissions
The Minister of Climate Change, Nick Smith, gave some strange information about our carbon emissions 1 yesterday. (See September 23rd 2008 for information about the Emissions Trading Scheme.) Last year we put too much carbon into the atmosphere and would need to buy $546 million of carbon credits 2. This year, amazingly, we have $241 million of carbon credits that we could sell to another country. The Emissions Trading Scheme doesn’t start until 2015.
The figures show how hard it is to measure carbon that is going into the atmosphere. In 2002, New Zealand had 55 million tonnes of carbon credits but in 2006 we had 64 million tonnes of carbon deficit 3, which means we would have to buy some carbon credits.
Farmers believe that the government needs to take farm animals out of the Emissions Trading Scheme. Agriculture is too important for our economy – for exports and for jobs.
Nick Smith says that the difference in figures is because of a drop in the number of farm animals during the drought 4. Also many forests were planted in the 1990s.
Although forests are helping 5 to reduce our carbon emissions, we are still 23% above 1990 levels of carbon emissions in transport, energy and industry. Under the Kyoto agreement, countries are trying to return to 1990 levels.
- Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
- Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
- He credits me with having better sense than that. 他认为我的见识要比那强得多。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Does this item go among the credits or the debits? 这笔账应记入贷方还是借方？ 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
- We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。
- The plants are growing in again,despite the drought.尽管干旱，植物又长出来了。
- The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样。