巴黎氣候大會達成減排協議

Envoys in Paris have agreed an international accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions that marks a turning point in more than 20 years of effort to prevent dangerous levels of global warming.

參加巴黎氣候大會的代表們已經通過了一份旨在限制溫室氣體排放的國際協議，在國際社會力圖防止全球變暖達到危險水平的長達20多年的努力中，該協議標誌着一個轉折點。

Delegates from nearly 200 nations cheered and hugged one another on the floor of the convention centre hall at Le Bourget airport, north of the city centre, as France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, declared the new pact had been formally adopted, just before 7:30pm in Paris.

在位於巴黎市中心以北布傑機場（Le Bourget airport）的會議中心大廳，當法國外長法比尤斯（Laurent Fabius）在法國當地時間週六晚上七點半前不久宣佈這個新協議已經正式達成時，來自近200個國家的與會代表歡呼雀躍，互相擁抱。

John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said: “This is a tremendous victory for all of our is a victory for all of the planet and for future generations...I know that all of us will be better off for the agreement we have finalised here today.”

美國國務卿約翰·克里（John Kerry）說：“這是我們所有公民的一個巨大勝利……這是整個地球和未來子孫後代的一大勝利……我知道，我們今天在這裏所達成的協議將造福於我們所有人。”

Xie Zhenhua, China’s chief climate negotiator, hailed the agreement as a “milestone in the global efforts to respond to climate change”, even if was not perfect and contained “some areas in need of improvement”.

中國首席氣候談判代表解振華則稱讚該協議是“全球應對氣候變化努力的一個里程碑”。

The new pact, to be known as the Paris Agreement, for the first time requires virtually every country in the world to set out its plans to avert climate change every five years.

被稱爲“巴黎協定”（the Paris Agreement）的這個新協議首次要求世界上幾乎所有國家每五年公佈一次該國應對氣候變化的計劃。

It includes an objective to limit global warming to “well below 2C above pre-industrial levels” and “pursue efforts” to limit the temperature increase to 1.5C.

該協議包括一個目標：即把全球變暖限制在“遠低於前工業化水平之上2攝氏度”，併爲把升溫幅度控制在1.5攝氏度之內而努力。

To meet these temperature targets, the draft says countries should aim to reach a “global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions” as soon as possible and “achieve a balance between anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases in the second half of this century”.

爲了實現這些溫度目標，該協議草案指出，各國應着眼於儘快達到“溫室氣體排放量的全球峯值”，並在本世紀下半葉實現人類活動排放與自然吸收之間的平衡。