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環境サミット、土壇場で合意
南アフリカのヨハネスブルクで行なわれていた国連環境開発サミットが4日、実施計画を採択し閉幕した。地球環境保護と発展途上国の貧困撲滅が焦点だったが、米国と途上国で意見の相違が目立った。
Last-minute deal struck at summit as Powell endures jeering activists
The United States came under attack in the final session of the U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Sept. 4 as the world's governments forged a last-minute action plan aimed at easing poverty and safeguarding the environment.
Repeatedly interrupted by activists' jeers and protests, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell defended the United States' environmental record and its efforts to help the poor in developing countries.
The United States has been strongly criticized by leaders and activists for U.S. President George W. Bush's rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, which focuses on reversing a global warming trend blamed for disastrous storms, floods and droughts.
Bush has said the U.S. has been fighting global warming in other ways, but the agreement was inappropriate and too costly for the U.S. economy.
Many activists have lashed out at the final agreement of the 10-day summit as inadequate and staged a symbolic walkout.
While there were a few minor achievements - mainly in the protection of fisheries and plans to bring sanitation to the poor - much of the summit was a desperate fight to stop governments from weakening already existing agreements, activists charged.
But negotiators did resolve the last main sticking points in the action plan to turn commitments made 10 years ago at the Rio Earth Summit into reality. Most of the items were geared to helping the world's poorest people without polluting the environment.
Shukan ST: Sept. 13, 2002
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- Last-minute deal
- 土壇場の合意
- (is)struck
- 取り決められる
- Powell
- コリン・パウエル米国務長官
- endures
- 耐える
- jeering
- あざけりの言葉を浴びせる
- U.N. World Summit on Sustainable Development
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- 作り上げた
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- 実施計画
- easing poverty
- 貧困を緩和する
- safeguarding
- 保護する
- interrupted by 〜
- 〜に邪魔されて
- Kyoto Protocol
- 京都議定書
- global warming trend
- 地球温暖化の傾向
- floods
- 洪水
- droughts
- 干ばつ
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- costly
- 金のかかる
- have lashed out at 〜
- 〜に非難を浴びせた
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- 不適切な
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- 計画的退席
- fisheries
- 漁場
- sanitation
- 衛生設備
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- 交渉者
- resolve
- 解決する
- sticking points
- 懸案事項
- turn 〜 into reality
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- 公約
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- 〜に向けられていた
- polluting
- 汚染する