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英国首相卡梅伦在联合国气候峰会英语演 讲稿 Climate change is one of the most serious threats facing our world. And it is not just a threat to the environment. It is also a threat to our national security, to global security, to poverty eradication and to economic prosperity. And we must agree a global deal in Paris next year. Wesimply cannot put this off any longer. And I pay tribute to Secretary General Ban for bringing everyone together here today and forputting real focus on this issue. Now my country, the United Kingdom, is playing its part. In fact, it was Margaret Thatcher who was one of the first world leaders to demandaction onclimate change, right here at the United Nations 25 years ago. Now since then, the UK has cut greenhouse gas emissions by one quarter. We have createdthe world ’s first Climate Change Act. And as Prime Minister, I pledged that the government Ilead would be the greenest government ever. And I believe we’ve kept that promise. 1 / 4 文章来源网络整理，仅供参考学习 We’ve more than doubled our capacity in renewable electricity in the last 4 years alone. Wenowhave enough solar to power almost a million UK homes. We have the world ’s leadingfinancial centre in carbon trading. And we have established the world ’s first green investmentbank. We ’ve invested ￡1 billion in Carbon Capture and Storage. And we’ve said no to any newcoal without Carbon Capture and Storage. We are investing in all forms of lower carbon energyincluding shale gas and nuclear, with the first new nuclear plant coming on stream for ageneration. Now, as a result of all that we are doing, we are on track to cut emissions by 80 per cent by2050. And we are playing our role internationally as well, providing nearly ￡4 billion of climatefinance over 5 years as part of our commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of our Gross NationalIncome on aid. And we are one of the only countries in the advanced world to do that and tomeet our promises. We now need the whole world though to step up to deliver