尼加拉瓜拒绝在巴黎会议上作出气候变化承诺（中英双语）

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希尼尔翻译公司（www.sinosenior.com.cn）2015年12月7日了解到：600万尼加拉瓜人已经有一段时间没做什么令全球瞩目的事了。It has been a while since the 6m people of Nicaragua did much to attract global attention.

But the Central American state burst on to the world stage at this week’s climate change conference in Paris when it became the first nation to declare it had no intention of publishing a national plan to combat global warming. 但在上周的巴黎气候变化大会上，这个中美洲国家却突然跃上国际舞台，成为全球首个宣布无意发布一项遏制全球变暖的全国计划的国家。

That would be “a path to failure” said Paul Oquist, Managua’s lead negotiator, explaining his country did not want to be a part of a process dooming the world to “the hell” of dangerous global warming. 尼加拉瓜首席谈判代表保罗?奥基斯特(Paul Oquist)解释道，他的国家不想参与一项注定会使世界堕入危险的全球变暖“地狱”的进程，那会是一条“失败之路”。

More than 180 of the 195 countries involved in the Paris talks have volunteered a plan to combat climate change since March as part of an effort to forge a new global accord to stop global temperatures rising more than 2C from pre-industrial times. 今年3月以来，在参加巴黎气候变化大会的195个国家中，已有逾180个国家自愿提出了应对气候变化的计划，以求构建一项新的全球协定，阻止全球气温较前工业化时代升高2摄氏度以上。

Their number includes the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, which was struggling this year with Ebola, and most of the world’s poorest countries, from Malawi and Burundi to Haiti and Niger. 其中包括饱受战乱折磨的刚果民主共和国、今年曾与埃博拉疫情展开斗争的利比里亚、以及大多数全球最贫困国家——从马拉维、布隆迪到海地和尼日尔。

But Mr Oquist, who first revealed his country’s stance to the Climate Home online news site, told reporters the voluntary nature of the pledges meant global temperatures were bound to rise. 但奥基斯特告诉记者，这些承诺的自愿性质意味着全球气温注定会升高。他最初是在在线新闻网站Climate Home披露尼加拉瓜的立场的。

“We do not want to be accomplices to the death, damages and destruction that a 3C or 4C world will represent,” he said. 他表示：“我们不想成为帮凶，促成气温升高3摄氏度或4摄氏度所代表的死亡、破坏和毁灭。”

Managua’s snub to the Paris conference, known as COP21, is unlikely to interrupt the meeting’s central aim of striking the first new UN climate agreement in 18 years. Nicaragua accounts for just 0.03 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. 尼加拉瓜对巴黎气候变化大会的怠慢态度，不太可能扰乱此次会议的主要目标，即达成18年来首个新的联合国(UN)气候协议。尼加拉瓜仅占全球温室气体排放量的0.03%。

As of Sunday, Nicaragua was one of nine countries yet to submit a climate pledge. 截至上周日，除尼加拉瓜外还有8个国家尚未提出气候变化承诺。

The others were: oil-rich Venezuela, North Korea, Libya, East Timor, Nepal, Uzbekistan, St Kitts and Nevis and Panama. 这8个国家包括石油储量丰富的委内瑞拉、朝鲜、利比亚、东帝汶、尼泊尔、乌兹别克斯坦、圣基茨和尼维斯以及巴拿马。

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