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Climate-change talks 气候变化会谈 Wilted greenery 凋零的青葱 The UNs latest round of climate-change talks open inDurban. Even avoiding deadlock would be anachievement 联合国最新一轮气候变化会谈在德班开幕，这次会谈只要不走进死胡同就算不错了 THOUSANDS of anxious environmentalists, hard-eyed negotiators and bemused journalists gatheredin Durban this week for the UNs annual climate-change circus. Saving the planet, the main itemon its agenda two years ago, in Copenhagen, was not uppermost in their minds. Saving thecircus was: the failure in Copenhagen to forge a binding agreement to mitigate the worldscarbon emissions could yet lead to a breakdown of the whole UN process in Durban. 本周无数焦虑的环保人士、针锋相对的谈判代表和迷茫的记者在德班聚集，参加联合国一年一度热闹的气候变化会谈。对于他们来说，最重要的不是两年前在哥本哈根议事日程上的主要议题拯救我们的地球，而是拯救这一次的会谈。因为哥本哈根会谈没能打造出有约束力的协议来减少世界二氧化碳排放量，这有可能导致本次联合国在德班的整个会议进程土崩瓦解。 To avoid that, negotiators have until December 9th to reach three goals. Least dauntingly, theymust nail down the details of initiatives agreed on in Cancn last year, chiefly the Green ClimateFund. This aims to help poor countries curb their emissions and adapt to global warming. It issupposed to be stocked with some of the $100 billion that rich countries have promised poorones by 2020. | 
