时间:2019-02-18 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Today, the Minister for Climate Change, Nick Smith, introduced an ETS – Emissions 1 Trading Scheme – bill into Parliament. This will change the ETS that the Labour government passed. Dr Smith said that it was important not to be too tough on industry because we do not want industries to move to another country.

The plan now is to reduce carbon emissions 10% to 20% below 1990 levels by 2020 and 50% by 2050. Other emissions include methane 2 from animals.

This new ETS will give us until July 1st 2010 before we have to pay for the carbon pollution that comes from transport, energy and industry. We will pay an extra 5% on electricity and 3.5cents a litre on petrol. Industry will pay $25 a tonne for the carbon it makes, but will only pay half of this for the first three years. All these extra costs will mean about $165 more a year for each household.

Although the Maori Party was against this bill at first because of the costs to the tax payer, finally they agreed to support it. One reason is that many Maori tribes 3 are using their Treaty Settlement money for industry. However, the government has promised the Maori Party some help for low income families, like free home insulation 4, in return for supporting the ETS bill.

Some Maori tribes own forests. Trees use carbon dioxide and can earn carbon credits, but if the trees are cut down for timber 5, more trees must be planted and this is very expensive.

Agriculture is the biggest industry in New Zealand. This ETS bill gives farmers five years before they have to pay for the greenhouse gases from their animals. The Prime Minister, John Key, is in New York at the moment, attending a United Nations meeting. Before the conference began, leaders met to talk about climate change. The US has agreed to John Key’s plan to help pay for research into ways of reducing agricultural emissions.



排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • 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。
n.甲烷,沼气
  • The blast was caused by pockets of methane gas that ignited.爆炸是由数袋甲烷气体着火引起的。
  • Methane may have extraterrestrial significance.甲烷具有星际意义。
n.部落( tribe的名词复数 );(动、植物的)族;(一)帮;大群
  • tribes living in remote areas of the Amazonian rainforest 居住在亚马孙河雨林偏远地区的部落
  • In Africa the snake is still sacred with many tribes. 非洲许多部落仍认为蛇是不可冒犯的。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.隔离;绝缘;隔热
  • Please examine the insulation of the electric wires in my house.请检查一下我屋子里电线的绝缘情况。
  • It is always difficult to assure good insulation between the electric leads.要保证两个电触头之间有良好的绝缘总是很困难的。
n.木材,原木,大木料,栋木
  • These trees need more time to grow into useful timber.这些树不够年头,还没成材呢。
  • The timber is graded according to its thickness.木材按厚度分级。
学英语单词
a black look
acoustic hologram
against cancer
aid equipments
aircraft climb assisting unit
almonte
aminoglycinuria
amittere curiam
aparaphysate
archaeoastronomical
array language
associated electrical apparatus
bacteride
bakeshop
barthelmy
bet ones bottom dollar
bismuth phenate
bronchial nocardiosis
certified emulsion
chronocidal
cold-air mass
complementary injunction transistor
congo brown
craniometry
data input/output interface
decanth larva
decide against sb.
Demlastatin
dip channel
disapproving
disengaging mechanism
disjunction mathematics
dispersion relation
document of school completion
double-bagger
drawls
Dreschhausen
ductile cast iron roll
eclosion hormone
etale morphism
export orientation
extragalactic gamma-rays
feedwater check valve
fiduciality
finishing groover
fluid column roaster
fold testing
free flight
freges
freightcars
fundamental loop
fusidane
futures and options fund
genus Tethus
Gerres
helc-
Hemopoietcis
high price
identifying with
immanations
in-place force
inchrome process
interstitial endometriosis
iraqi-style
last home
leader-member
life-times
Liz, R.
lording
machine-made lace
massively parallel computer
mawangdui
MBQ (modified biquinary code)
Muurame
nenadkevite
open side hammer
orestess
overperformances
photosensitive speed
polar high pressure belt
pre-compression
rate of stretch
redamages
reticulocerebellar fibers
run over sth
sandy blight
Sargassum siliquastrum
segmentate
self aligning spherical rolling bearing
sliding mandrel
squatting closet
sub-freight
suppressor overvoltage
thermoalloy
ultraprecision
unspell
vagi-
Valrelease
waiting to
wheel bay
yiganning granules
zone leveling