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Rwanda, which has a GDP of roughly $9 billion,
卢旺达，GDP约90亿美元，
has adopted an $11 billion plan to reduce emissions and adapt to climate change,
通过了一项拨款110亿美元用于减少排放和适应气候变化的计划，
which includes a push for buses, cars and motorcycles to go electric.
具体措施包括推动使用电动公交车、电动汽车和电动摩托车。
"We cannot afford to have the same mode of recovery,
“他们那样的复苏模式，
the same mode of doing business, the same mode of economic activity,"
商业模式，经济活动模式我们是负担不起的，”
says Juliet Kabera, director general of the Rwanda Environment Management Authority.
卢旺达环境管理局局长朱丽叶·卡贝拉说。
International institutions are playing a critical role nudging these countries.
国际机构在推动这些国家推行清洁能源方面发挥了关键作用。
The IMF, which has said it "stands ready" to use its $1 trillion lending capacity to stave off the effects of the coronavirus pandemic,
曾表示“随时准备”利用其1万亿美元的贷款资格抵御新冠疫情影响的国际货币基金组织（IMF）
has made climate resilience a key criterion for its lending.
将气候弹性设置成了放贷的关键标准。
This has already paid dividends: some 50 nations, including dozens of developing countries,
目前，这一举措已经初见成效：包括数十个发展中国家在内的约50个国家
committed in late June to address climate change in their coronavirus recovery plans.
都已经在6月下旬承诺，将解决气候变化问题纳入新冠疫情复苏计划。
"It's a great catalyst to think about building a new world," says Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado Quesada.
“这是一个很好的催化剂，能够对我们建设新世界有所启发，”哥斯达黎加总统卡洛斯·阿尔瓦拉多·克萨达说。
"Whatever we decide as a country or as a global community in the next six or 10 or 12 months
“无论是作为一个国家，还是作为国际社会的一份子，我们在接下来的6个月，10个月甚至是12个月的决策
is going to determine what happens on the earth for the next decade."
直接关系到未来10年整个地球的安危。”
Nowhere will such an approach have as large an impact as in the E.U.
这一方案对欧盟的影响将会超过对其他任何地方的影响。
When compared with countries, the bloc is the world's second largest economy and third largest emitter.
和世界其他国家相比，欧盟位居世界第二大经济体，但同时也是世界第三大排放来源。
Its pandemic recovery will help achieve the proposed target of halving its emissions in 10 years
欧盟的疫情后恢复计划将有助于实现用不到10年的时间将排放量减半这一预期目标，
by spending $100 billion annually to make homes energy-efficient,
具体措施为每年投资1000亿美元用于家庭节能，
$28 billion to build renewable energy capacity and up to $67 billion for zero-emissions trains.
280亿美元用于建设可再生能源产能，再用670亿美元的巨额资金用于投资零排放列车。
The European investment in going green will hurt coal-mining jobs in places like Poland and the Czech Republic,
欧洲的绿色投资势必伤害到波兰，捷克等地的煤矿就业，
but the European recovery program will pay billions to retrain the workers and transition them to other industries.
不过，他们的复苏计划会拿出数十亿美元对煤矿工人进行再培训，帮助他们转行。
The measure awaits approval by the member countries, and the details are subject to negotiation,
这一方案还有待各成员国达成一致，方案具体细节也有待协商，
but observers do not expect the direction of the policy to change.
不过，观察人士预计他们并不会更改这一政策方向。
Other major players in the global economy, most notably the U.S. and China,
全球经济市场的其他巨头，最引人注目的就是美国和中国，
have not made as clear commitments to a green-tinged recovery.
还没有做出走绿色复苏道路的明确承诺。
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