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外文翻译 原文 Climate change and planning:carbon control and spatial regulation Material Source: Town Planning Review, Liverpool University Press, 2008, 79(1) Author: Aidan While After a decade of false starts, the goal of radically reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and particularly carbon dioxide, is rising up the political agenda. The renewed urgency of the ‘carbon control’ agenda reflects a tipping point in political, public and media acceptance of the reality of global warming, its human causes, and the future economic and social costs of inaction. Political commitment to carbon control is also being driven by various other pressures, including the rising cost and instability of oil supplies, and the threats posed by rapid industrialisation in India and China. At the international level, the desperate search is on for a robust programme for reducing carbon emissions to levels that avoid irreversible and damaging global climate change (currently linked to a 2℃ rise in global temperature). Like the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the new international programme will be based on the setting of national targets. However, unlike the Kyoto Protocol, these targets will be framed within an agreed set of ‘environmental’ limits for future greenhouse gas emissions underpinned by broad international support. Clearly there is still much to be negotiated in terms of the distribution of the global emissions quota, but it is a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if ’ the post-Kyoto target will be set. The geopolitics of carbon control means that the targets will be rigorously monitored and enforced at national and international levels. Towards a new regulatory era of carbon control Most Western nations have begun to anticipate the new era of carbon control, with Norway planning to become carbon-neutral by cutting its net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050 (Vidal, 2007). In the UK, the Stern Review of the economics of climate change (HM Tre