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This, in turn, increases the amount of greenhouse gases being released by landmasses, which further accelerates global warming.
這反過來增加了陸塊的溫室氣體釋放量，進一步加速了全球變暖。
A swelling human population also needs more land to feed itself. Balancing these needs—for space to grow food on the one hand,
增加的人口也需要更多土地供養。平衡這些需求—一方面有地可種，
and natural carbon sinks to keep temperatures low on the other—is a huge challenge. There are, however, solutions.
另一方面天然碳匯可保持低溫—是一個巨大的挑戰。但有解決辦法。
Recently, a report by the World Resources Institute, a multinational think-tank,
近期跨國智囊團—世界資源研究所的一份報告
listed 22 actions that could be taken to feed, sustainably, close to 10bn people by 2050.
列出了22項可采取的行動，以持續供養至2050年接近100億的人口。
Number one on that list is stopping deforestation, along with efforts to regenerate degraded ecosystems.
名單上的第一條就是停止砍伐森林，以及努力恢復退化的生態系統。
Reducing food waste is also important. More than a quarter of what the world grows to eat is never actually consumed.
減少食物浪費也很重要。世界上超過四分之一的糧食實際上從未被消費掉。
That creates a huge carbon footprint to no benefit. And diets themselves need to change.
這造成了巨大的碳足跡，卻毫無益處。飲食本身也需要改變。
In particular, raising livestock contributes disproportionately to the problem.
尤其是養牲畜不成比例地加劇了這一問題。
That means eating less meat, an admonition directed mainly at rich countries,
這意味著少吃肉，這一警告主要針對富裕國家
whose people, often overweight, might in any case benefit from going on a diet.
這些國家的人通常都超重，或許不管怎樣他們都能從節食中獲益。
This last point presented one bone of contention between the 195 government delegations charged with approving the panel's report.
最后一點是195個負責批準報告的政府之間的爭論焦點之一。
The role of bioenergy (growing crops for fuel) and BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) was another.
生物能（種植燃料作物）以及碳捕獲和儲存（BECCS）的作用是另一個爭議點。
A previous IPCC report, published in 2018, on the feasibility of limiting global warming to 1.5°C,
IPCC之前在2018年發布的一份關于將全球變暖控制在1.5°C以內的可行性報告
made it abundantly clear that this would require large amounts of greenhouse gases be removed from the atmosphere and somehow stored away.
充分闡明了這樣將需要從大氣中去除大量的溫室氣體，并以某種方式儲存起來。
BECCS, in which power stations capture and store the CO2 from burning biofuel, has been touted as a way to do that on a large scale,
BECCS（發電站捕捉并儲存燃燒生物燃料中的二氧化碳）已被吹捧為大規模實現這一目標的一種方式，
but the area of land required to grow the biofuel needed to absorb billions of tonnes of CO2 would be enormous—several times the size of India.
但種植能夠吸收數十億公噸二氧化碳所需的生物燃料，其所需的土地面積將是巨大的—是印度面積的幾倍。
Optimistically, the report's authors conclude that there should be enough room to provide a growing population with sufficient food,
該報告的作者們樂觀地總結到，應該有足夠的空間為不斷增長的人口提供足夠的食物，
without rushing towards a dangerously warm climate. There is, though, a caveat.
而不必沖向危險的溫暖氣候。不過有一點要注意。
That outcome would require what one commentator called a "global intelligent response".
這一結果將需要一位評論員所說的“全球智能反應”。
But the world, like the delegates, seems to be asleep.
但這個世界，就像代表們一樣，似乎都睡著了。
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