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
abnormal phoneme
aestuum
alternative carriage
anal operculum
antiarachnolysin
backstair
banana kicks
barenboim
be under review
BISCS
bow mechanism
bursae iliopectinea
Chladni
chromium tungstate
compound oil
concentrated evaporator
conical gauge
conpsoromic acid
convergence region
countryish
debit credit mechanism
delayed time-base sweep
disarmings
discredits
distinctiveness ratio
electropositive
erewhile (s)
extended field
filament blend yarn
Flumezin
foreappoint
forest goats
formation signal
frontal-contour chart
Gaius Julius Caesar
Galton's delta
gastrique
generalife
Gentianopsis holopetala
get ... on
gnathoscope
Guy's pill
Huschke's valves
hyperegy
integrated tug-barge
it feels like
kalioun
karagandas
Kievites
KING (Kinetic Intense Neutron Generator)
layman management
line control word
lobotess
lobularities
luci
magnesium carbonate
Makhāmīr, Jab.al
microwave dryer
mimoplocia notata
MIRAPINNIDAE
modern drama
nandrolone phenylpropionate
nonimplant
Olovyannaya
one quadrant convertor
optical parallelism
overhead
p-hydroxyphenylpyruvic acid
pendler
PHLA
placida dendritica
predicator
production engine
provisional acceptance
purophobia
requisite book
reverse-commutes
rule with an iron fist
Sikkim holly
siliceous geyserite
solid error
solid lubricant
solubility parameter
spermatozoon (pl. spermatozoa)
spray chemical
stationary tangent
Stenshuvud
subdivision rules
taxation theories and principles
the Demerara
thinkos
tidal zone biology
timber drying
tropical air mass
true income
undilating
US Coast Guard
Wii Sports
wolf jaw
xterra
yard craft