评论
打印
1.account for 解释，导致，占，负责
Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。
2.a panel of 一组
He assembled a panel of scholars to advise him
他组织了一个学者小组为他出谋划策。
n. 方案，计划，阴谋
v. 计画，设计，体系
您现在的位置： 首页 > 英语听力 > 国外媒体资讯 > 经济学人双语版 > 经济学人商业系列 > 正文
- In fact, the two-year average was expressly designed to account for low-emission years
- 事实上，取两年平均值是特意为了考虑到低排放年份
- —a lesson learned from an early attempt to set the baseline in 2010,
- —这是从2010年早期基准值设定的尝试中吸取的教训，
- which was thwarted by the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, an Icelandic volcano which grounded flights in Europe.
- 当时冰岛埃亚菲亚德拉火山喷发，导致欧洲航班停飞。
- Another complaint is that many of the offsets airlines can buy are ineffective.
- 另一个抱怨是，航空公司可购买的许多碳抵消都没有产生效果。
- A report in November last year by the New- Climate Institute and the Stockholm Environment Institute, two think-tanks,
- 智库新气候机构和斯德哥尔摩环境研究所在去年11月发布了一份报告，
- found that 80% of CORSIA's potential offsets are unlikely to have any additional benefit to the climate.
- 报告显示80%的CORSIA计划中售卖的碳抵消不大可能会对气候有任何益处。
- Since then ICAO has, to its credit, limited the availability of junk offsets in the scheme, though green campaigners say it has not gone far enough.
- 值得称赞的是，从那时起，ICAO限制了该计划中无用碳抵消的可购买性，不过环保人士表示，这还不够。
- Offsets' bargain prices also suggest something is amiss.
- 抵消公司的廉价价格也表明出了问题。
- In 2018 the average price in the "voluntary market" (outside of mandated schemes) was $3 per tonne of CO2, about a sixth of the carbon price in the EU emissions-trading scheme.
- 2018年，“自愿市场”（强制性计划之外）的平均价格为每吨二氧化碳3美元，约为欧盟排放交易计划中碳价格的六分之一。
- Last year EasyJet, a British low-cost carrier, announced plans to offset all its annual emissions.
- 去年，英国一家低成本航空公司EasyJet宣布了抵消其全年排放量的计划。
- This will cost it a footling $32m.
- 这将使该公司损失无足轻重的3200万美元。
- New offest projects created in anticipation of CORSIA boosted supply, which is expected to be four times higher than demand.
- 预计CORSIA计划中新设计的碳抵消计划将增加供应，预计供应量将是需求量的4倍。
- Industry executives claim that the original baseline would have imposed crippling costs.
- 航空业高管声称，最初的基准会增加巨大的成本。
- That seems overblown.
- 这似乎言过其实了。
- Sparse coverage and the cheap offsets mean the cost to the industry is low.
- 稀疏的覆盖范围和廉价的抵消价格意味着航空业的成本很低。
- Assuming an offset price of $5 per tonne of CO2, Mr Rutherford estimates the change in the baseline will save airlines $350m a year.
- 假设抵消价格为每吨二氧化碳5美元，卢瑟福估计，基准线的改变将每年为航空公司节省3.5亿美元。
- That is less than 1% of the forecast operating cashflow in 2021 for a panel of 37 listed airlines.
- 这还不到37家上市航空公司预测的2021年运营现金流的1%。
- Forgoing those savings would have been a small price to pay for burnishing airlines' reputations as they seek billions in government bail-outs.
- 在航空公司向政府寻求数十亿美元纾困之际，放弃这些节省下来的开支，以微薄的代价来赚取好名声，也不错。
- Accusations of greenwashing will make calls to attach potentially much costlier green strings to the rescue packages grow louder.
- “绿色环保”的指责将使要求在援助方案中附加昂贵的环保条件的呼声越来越高。
扫描二维码进行跟读打分训练
- 阅读本文的人还阅读了：
上一篇：经济学人:航空公司与气候(1)
可可英语官方微信(微信号:ikekenet)
每天向大家推送短小精悍的英语学习资料.
添加方式1.扫描上方可可官方微信二维码。
添加方式2.搜索微信号ikekenet添加即可。
添加方式1.扫描上方可可官方微信二维码。
添加方式2.搜索微信号ikekenet添加即可。
