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A global agency is needed for the energy crisis 建立全球机构 应对能源危机 Mohamed ElBaradei 穆罕默德·埃尔巴拉迪 World leaders need to take action on the energy crisis that is taking shape before our eyes. Oil prices are soaring and it looks less and less likely that this is a bubble. The price of coal has doubled. Countries as far apart as South Africa and Tajikistan are plagued by power cuts and there have been riots in several nations because of disruptions to electricity. Rich states, no longer strangers to blackouts, are worried about security of energy supply. In the developing world, 1.6bn people – about a quarter of the human race – have no access to electricity. 能源危机正在我们眼前形成，世界领导人需对此采取行动。石油价格飙升，看上去这越来越不像是一个泡沫了。煤价翻了一番。从南非到塔吉克斯坦相距如此遥远的国家都在遭受电力削减的困扰，因为停电在几个国家都出现了骚乱。富裕国家对于断电黑灯已习以为常，他们担心能源供应保障问题。在发展中国家有16亿人口没有办法得到电力供应，他们占全球人口的四分之一。 Fundamental changes are under way in the energy field the significance of which we have not yet fully grasped. Global demand for energy is rising fast as the population increases and developing countries undergo dramatic economic growth. The International Energy Agency says the world’s energy needs could be 50 per cent higher in 2030 than they are today. Yet the fossil fuels on which the world still depends are finite and far from environmentally friendly. Serious thought needs to be given now to creating viable alternatives. The need for co-ordinated political action on energy and related issues – climate change and poverty, to name but two – has never been more acute. Yet there is no global energy institution in which the countries of the world can agree on joint solutions to the potentially enormous problems we see emerging. 能源领域正在发生一些根本性的变革，其意义我们尚未领悟透彻。随着人口的增加和发展中国家经历巨大的经济增长，全球对能源的需求正在急速上升。国际能源机构称全世界的能源需求到2030年要比现在高出50%。然而目前全世界仍旧依赖的化石燃料是有限的，且对环境极为不友好。现在必须认真思考搞出个可行的其他替代办法。在能源和相关的问题上进行协调政治行动——仅举气候变化和贫穷两例——的需要从未比现在更为紧迫。然而没有一个全球的能源机构，世界各国可以在其中就我们目睹出现的潜在的巨大问题采取共同决议。 We have a World Health Organisation, two global food agencies, the Bretton W