1. low-lying countries 低洼國家
2. pious adj 道貌岸然的，偽善的
3. overshoot 超過（原計(jì)劃），突破（預(yù)計(jì)費(fèi)用）overshoot sb by sth
4. lost cause 沒有希望的事情
5. chasten 使后悔
6. plausible
7. face up to 敢于面對，勇于正視
8. cede 割讓 cede sth to sb 把什么東西割讓給某人
9. life-enhancing 增加生活樂趣的

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1. （減少溫室氣體排放的失敗造成了巨大的災(zāi)難）The conseuqences of world's failure to curb emissions are catastrophic. Given the lasting impact of greenhouse gasses already emitted, and the impossibility of stopping emissions overnight, climate-related diasters are proliferating, from Pakistan, much of which was inundated by summer's intense monsoon, to Florida, which just endured its dealiest hurrican since 1935. Even less lethal distortions of the weather, such as this summer's extraordinary heatwave in Europe, do enormous economic damage: impeding transport, wrecking infrastructure and sapping productivity.
2. Cutting emissions will require much more money. Now available global investments in clean energy hardly meet the demand, concentrating in rich countries, not in developing countries, which generate most of today's emissions. Concessionary lending and aid from rich countreis are essential and a moral imperative. Solar and wind power as substitue can be cheaper to build and run than more polluting types, but grids need to be rebuilt to cope with the intermittency of the sun and the wind.
3. So the government of developing countries, especially middle-income ones, will have to work with the rich world to mobilise private investment.
4. On the part of donors, it will involve focusing spending on schemes that crowd in private capital, such as idemnifying investors against political and regulatory risks, taking equity stakes in private projects and agreeing to absorb the first tranche of losses if thing go wrong.
5. (需要適應(yīng)新的氣候變化）Greater efforts must be made to adapt to climate change. Adaptation has always been mistrusted by activists as a distraction from cutting emissions, or, worse, an excuse not to make any cuts. But no matter what, the world now faces more floods, droughts, storms and wildfires. Preparing for these calamities is a matter of life and death, not only for developing countries, but also for rich ones. If the rich world allows global warming to ravage already fragile countires, it will inevitably end up paying a huge price in food shortages and proliferating refugees. Why not help the poorest adapt now: even modest help cna have a big impact?