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Moreover, cleaning up electricity is only part of the battle.
此外，清潔電力只是斗爭的一部分。
Even though gas-fired heating and cooking can be at least as big a source of greenhouse-gas emissions, renewable heating gets minuscule attention.
盡管燃氣取暖和烹飪至少是溫室氣體排放的一大源頭，但是可再生能源供熱還是得到極少被關注。
Transport policy is erratic, too.
交通政策也有點古怪。
Carmakers may hit their goal of annual sales of 10m electric vehicles in a decade, but battery-powered road haulage, shipping and aviation are dreams.
汽車制造商可能會實現在十年之內每年銷售一千萬輛電動車的目標，但是電池驅動的道路運輸，海運和航空則成了夢想。
A much-quoted claim that America could rely on wind, solar and hydro alone for its electricity has recently been witheringly criticised by a group of respected academics.
一份被廣泛引述的聲明稱，美國可能僅僅依靠依賴風能，太陽能和水利發電，因為它的電力最近受到一群令人尊敬的學者難堪地批判。
Most important, a 100% renewables target confuses means with ends.
最重要的是，一個100%的可再生目標混淆本末。
The priority for the planet is to stop net emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.
需要優先考慮地是停止地球上的溫室氣體排放，尤其是二氧化碳的排放。
Putting too much emphasis on wind, solar and other renewables may block off better carbon-reduction paths.
將太多重點放在風能，太陽能和其它的可再生能源上可能會阻擋更好的碳減排途徑。
After decades of investment, it is wrong to leave nuclear power off the table.
經過幾十年的調查，停止核能是不對的。
Carbon emissions in Germany actually rose because it chose to phase outnuclear power and so burned more coal.
在德國，碳排放增多了，是因為國家選擇逐步淘汰核能，所以燒了更多的煤。
New technologies, such as “direct air capture” systems designed to separate carbon dioxide from the air, may in time prove vital.
就像“直接捕獲空氣”的系統設計是為了將二氧化碳從空氣中分離，新技術可能是至關重要的。
Likewise, greater energy efficiency could reduce emissions by even more than deploying renewables would.
同樣的，更高的能源效率可以降低排放量，甚至多于發展可再生能源后減少的排放量。
Indians last year consumed twice as much energy from newly installed air conditioners as they produced from new solar farms.
去年，印度人新安裝的空調消耗了兩倍的能量，因為它們產自新的太陽能農場。
More accurate metering of energy consumption could encourage companies and households to rein in power demand.
更準確的能耗計量可能會鼓勵公司和家庭控制電力需求。
It would be better, as the Paris agreement urges, for countries to focus on reductions in emissions rather than to set goals for renewable energy.
如巴黎協定要求的那樣，國家致力于減少排放量，而不是訂立可再生能源的目標，這樣更好。
Global emissions have stabilised in the past three years, which is encouraging.
在過去的三年里全球排放量已經穩定了，這是鼓舞人心的。
But to stand a chance of mitigating global warming, they must start falling sharply and keep doing so for decades.
但是為了有機會減輕全球變暖，它們必須開始急劇減少，并且這樣保持幾十年。
The world will move in that direction with the help of wind and solar.
這個世界會在風能和太陽能的幫助下朝著那個方向前進。
It will not get there without big advances on every other front as well.
沒有其他各個方面的巨大進步，它也不會到達。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
