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2021年11月1日
拜登总统在第26届联合国气候变化大会领导人声明活动上的讲话
苏格兰会展中心（Scottish Event Campus）
苏格兰格拉斯哥（Glasgow）
格林尼治标准时间下午2时55分
总统：女士们、先生们，显而易见的是，我们是在历史的注视下面对摆在我们面前的深刻议题举行会议的。这很简单：我们将采取行动吗？我们将做必须要做的事情吗？我们将抓住我们面前的这个巨大机会吗？还是我们将导致子孙后代受苦受难？
这正是将做出回答的十年。这个十年。科学是明确的：我们面对的时间已很紧迫，要提升我们的雄心并奋起——并迎接使命的时间迅速变得越来越紧迫。
这是一个决定性的十年，让我们有机会来证明我们自己。如果我们齐心协力，如果我们每个国家都怀着决心和雄心承诺尽我们的一份力，我们就有望实现将全球升温幅度限制在仅为1.5摄氏度的目标。这正是第26届联合国气候变化大会（COP26）的全部意义所在。
格拉斯哥（Glasgow）必须开启一个十年——一个为保护我们共同的未来而充满雄心和创新的十年。
气候变化已在全世界肆虐。我们已经听到发言者的讲述。这不是假定；这不是一种假定的威胁。它正在摧毁人民的生活和生计，而且每一天都如此。
它给我们各国造成了数万亿美元的损失。创纪录的高温和干旱正在一些地方导致更广泛、更猛烈的野火，而在另一些地方则导致作物减产。
创纪录的水灾以及过去百年一见的风暴现在每隔几年就会发生一次。
在过去几个月里，美国经历了所有这些，而且全世界每个地区都能讲述类似的经历。在一个此次疫情已令人如此痛心地显示出没有任何一个国家能够免受不识边界的威胁的时代，我们知道如果我们没有抓住这个时刻，那么我们任何人都无法摆脱尚未到来的更糟糕的情况。
但是，女士们、先生们，在日益恶化的灾难之中，我相信存在着一个极其重大的机会，不仅仅是对于美国，而且是对于我们所有人。我们正处在世界历史的一个转折点。我们有能力为我们自己投资并建设一个公平的清洁能源未来，并在这个过程中在全世界创造千百万个薪酬良好的就业机会——让我们的孩子们享有更清洁的空气，让我们的星球享有更富饶的海洋以及更健康的森林和生态系统。
我们可以创造一个提高全世界生活水平的环境。这不仅是一项道义要务，也是一项经济要务——如果我们促进更大的增长、新的就业机会，并为我们全体人民创造更好的机会。
而且当我们看到目前能源价格的波动性时，不能将其视为一个放弃我们的清洁能源目标的理由，而是要将它视为一种采取行动的召唤。
高昂的能源价格只会——只会增强能源多样化、加倍努力开发清洁能源以及采用有前景的新型清洁能源技术的迫切需求，以使我们不能——不能一直过度依赖于一种能源来为我们的经济和我们的社区供能。
这符合每个国家的自身利益。而且我认为这是一个在全世界各地为我们的经济抗御力以及我们的劳动者和我们的社区进行几代人的投资的机会。这正是我们将在美国进行的努力。
我的“更好地重建”（Build Back Better）框架将为清洁能源进行历史性投资，成为任何一个先进国家有史以来为应对气候危机所做的投资中最为重大的投资。
我们到2030年将使美国温室气体排放削减幅度远远超过几十亿吨，同时通过为安装太阳能板和住房耐候改造等提供税额抵免以及降低能源价格来使消费者更有能力节省他们自己的能源支出。我们还将为我们的孩子们提供更清洁的空气和水，将校车车队发展成电动车，提高电动车的抵免额，并解决遗留的污染问题。
这将鼓励清洁能源生产，建造促使未来能源市场不断增长的太阳能板和风力涡轮机，这将为美国工人创造薪酬良好的有工会组织的就业机会——而这是我们任何人都不应当忽略的。
我向美国人民谈到气候变化时，我告诉他们这关系到就业。这关系到将铺设数千英里的清洁的、现代的、有抗御力的电网传输线的工人们。将制造新一代电动车的汽车工人们，以及将在我国各地安装一个50万个电动车充电站的全国网络的电工们。将设计新型碳捕获系统的工程师们，以及将把它们付诸实施的建筑工人们。不仅帮助抗击全球性饥馑，而且利用土地来抗击气候变化的农民们。还有将围绕新的产业和机遇重新焕发活力的各个社区。
因为我们正在采取所有这些行动，美国将能够达到我在4月份的领导人气候峰会（Leaders’ Summit on Climate）上确立的雄心目标，到2030年将美国的排放量减少到低于2005年水平的50%到52%。
我们将向世界展示，美国不仅返回到桌前，而且希望能以榜样的力量起带头作用。
我知道这不是一直的情况，正因为如此，我的政府正在超时工作，以显示我们对气候的承诺在于行动，而不是言辞。
在我上任第一天，我采取行动，使美国重返《巴黎协议》（Paris Agreement）。自那时以来，本政府一直在大力努力，开放清洁能源上的突破，以便降低我们实现净零排放所需技术的成本，并且针对将成为未来清洁经济动力的新一代技术与私人行业展开合作。
在未来几天里，美国将宣布新的行动计划，表明我们致力于提供多行业的创新解决办法，从农业到石油和天然气，到同滥伐森林作斗争，到大力减少工业排放。
我们既在准备向2030年作短距冲刺，以便能够实现1.5摄氏度的目标，同时也准备进行一场让我们抵达终点的马拉松，把世界上最大的经济体转变成一个生气蓬勃、新颖、公平和公正的净零世界中的清洁能源引擎。
正是为了这个原因，我今天公布美国的长期战略，呈现美国不迟于2050年实现经济零排放目标的愿景，并再次强调在这个决定性十年采取大胆行动的绝对重要性。
我们还将尽我们的努力，帮助世界其他国家也采取行动。我们希望更多地帮助全世界的国家，特别是发展中国家，加快他们的清洁能源转型，解决污染，确保让我们所有人必须共享的星球是一个更清洁、更安全，最健康的世界。我们有责任提供帮助。
联合国——9月份在联合国，我宣布我的政府正在与国会一道努力，争取到2024年把我们为发展中国家提供的气候金融援助增加四倍，包括大幅增加对适应举措的支持。
这项承诺将使我们有可能实现每一项共同目标，每年调动起1000亿美元气候融资。但是，为满足这种极大的需要而调动大规模融资要靠各方面共同出力。
正如其他发言人今天提到的，政府和私人行业，以及多边发展银行也必须为这种转型的需要而作出他们的努力，从百万到亿万到万亿。
今天，我即将提交一份新的“适应气候变化通报”（Adaptation Communication），阐明我们将如何落实全球的适应目标，并且宣布我们对“适应气候变化基金”（Adaptation Fund）的首批贡献。
但是，我们的承诺不只在于融资；它是关键的一环。我们还将支持各个方面的解决方案。
在这次会议临近前，美国与七国集团伙伴共同启动了重建更好世界行动计划（Build Back Better World Initiative）。我们还再次召开了主要经济体能源和气候论坛（Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate），启动有转型意义的行动，提高雄心目标。
与欧洲联盟一道，我们正在发起“全球甲烷承诺”（Global Methane Pledge），共同致力于到这个十年末，将甲烷这种最严重的温室气体之一的排放减少至少30%。
已经有超过70%的国家加入承诺，支持快速减少甲烷污染。我鼓励所有国家都加入进来。这是在近期减缓全球升温的简单而最为有效的战略。
朋友们，如果我们要能看到那个更美好，更富于希望的未来，每个国家都必须为保持1.5摄氏度的雄心目标作出各自的努力，并拿出达到目标的具体方案，尤其是对主要经济体而言。
我们必须帮助发展中国家，让他们能够成为我们在这一努力中的合作伙伴。目前我们做得不够。没有时间再踌躇不前，或骑墙不决，或彼此争论。
这是我们共同时代的挑战。这是我们所知的对人类生存的威胁。我们每拖延一天，无所作为的代价都在升高。
因此，让此时此刻成为我们在格拉斯哥响应历史呼唤的时刻。让此时此刻成为一个十年变革行动的开端，保护我们的星球，提高所有地方人的生活质量。
我们能够做到，我们只是必须选择去做。
让我们开始工作。谢谢各位。
我们当中对造成森林被大量砍伐和我们迄今所有问题负有责任的国家，对那些实际并不在场，没有造成这些后果的国家具有重大义务。我们必须给予比我们迄今所给予的更大得多的帮助。
上帝保佑各位，愿上帝拯救地球。谢谢。（掌声）
 
格林尼治时间下午3时06分
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欲查看原稿内容:  https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/11/01/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-cop26-leaders-statement/

Scottish Event CampusGlasgow, Scotland
2:55 P.M. GMT
THE PRESIDENT:  Ladies and gentlemen, to state the obvious, we meet with the eyes of history upon us and the profound questions before us.  It’s simple: Will we act?  Will we do what is necessary?  Will we seize the enormous opportunity before us?  Or will we condemn future generations to suffer?
This is the decade that will determine the answer.  This decade.  The science is clear: We only have a brief window left before us to raise our ambitions and to raise — to meet the task that’s rapidly narrowing.
This is a decisive decade in which we have an opportunity to prove ourselves.  We can keep the goal of limiting global warming to just 1.5 degrees Celsius within our reach if we come together, if we commit to doing our part of each of our nations with determination and with ambition.  That’s what COP26 is all about.
Glasgow must be the kickoff of a decade — a decade of ambition and innovation to preserve our shared future.
Climate change is already ravaging the world.  We’ve heard from many speakers.  It’s not a hypothetical; it’s not a hypothetical threat.  It’s destroying people’s lives and livelihoods and doing it every single day.
It’s costing our nations trillions of dollars.  Record heat and drought are fueling more widespread and more intense wildfires in some places and crop failures in others.  Record flooding and what used to be a once-in-a-century storms are now happening every few years.
In the past few months, the United States has experienced all of this, and every region of the world can tell similar stories.  And in an age where this pandemic has made so painfully clear that no nation can wall its all — wall itself off from borderless threats, we know that none of us can escape the worse that’s yet to come if we fail to seize this moment.
But, ladies and gentlemen, within the growing catastrophe, I believe there’s an incredible opportunity, not just for the United States but for all of us.  We’re standing at an inflection point in world history.  We have the ability to invest in ourselves and build an equitable clean-energy future and in the process create millions of good-paying jobs and opportunities around the world — cleaner air for our children, where bountiful oceans, healthier forests and ecosystems for our planet.
We can create an environment that raises the standard of living around the world.  And this is a moral imperative, but it’s also an economic imperative — if we fuel greater growth, new jobs, and better opportunities for all our people.
And as we see current volatility in energy prices, rather than cast it as a reason to back off our clean energy goals, we must view it as a call to action.
High energy prices only — only reinforce the urgent need to diversiry [sic] — diversify sources, double down on clean energy deployment, and adapt promising new clean-energy technologies so we cannot ove- — where you don’t remain overly reliant on one source of power to power our economies and our communities.
It’s in the self-interest of every single nation.  And this is a chance, in my view, to make a generational investment
in our economic resilience and in our workers and our communities throughout the world.  That’s what we’re going to do in the United States.
My Build Back Better framework will make historic investments in clean energy, the most significant investment
to deal with the climate crisis that any advanced nation has made ever.
We’re going to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by well over a gigaton by 2030, while making it more affordable for consumers to save on their own energy bills with tax credits for things like installing solar panels, weatherizing their homes, lowering energy prices.  We’ll also deliver cleaner air and water for our children, electrifying fleets of school buses, increasing credits for electric vehicles, and addressing legacy pollution.
It will incentivize clean energy manufacturing, building the solar panels and wind turbines that are growing energy markets of the future, which will create good-paying union jobs for American workers — and something that none of us should lose sight of.
When I talk to the American people about climate change, I tell them it’s about jobs.  It’s about workers who will lay thousands of miles of transmission lines of clean, modern, resilient power grid.  The autoworkers who will build the next generation of electric vehicles and electricians who will install a nationwide network of 500,000 vehicle stations to power them throughout my country.  The engineers who will design new carbon capture systems, and the construction workers who will make them a reality.  The farmers who will not only help fight global hunger but also use the soil to fight climate change.  The communities that will revitalize themselves around new industries and opportunities.
And because we are taking all these actions, the United States will be able to meet the ambitious target I set in the Leaders’ Summit on Climate back in April, reducing the U.S. emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
We’ll demonstrate to the world the United States
is not only back at the table but hopefully leading by the power of our example.
I know it hasn’t been the case, and that’s why my administration is working overtime to show that our climate commitment is action, not words.
On my very first day in office, I took action to return the United States to the Paris Agreement.  Since then, our administration has been hard at work unlocking clean energy breakthroughs to drive down the cost of technologies that will require us to do — to achieve net-zero emissions, and working with the private sector on the next generation of technologies that will power a clean economy of the future.
Over the next several days, the United States will be announcing several new initiatives that demonstrate our commitment to providing innovative solutions across multiple sectors, from agriculture to oil and gas, to combatting deforestration — deforestation, to tackling hard and to abate industries.
We’re planning for a both short-term sprint to 2030 that will keep 1.5 degrees Celsius in reach and for a marathon that will take us — take us to the finish line and transform the largest economy in the world into a thriving, innovative, equitable, and just clean-energy engine of net-zero — for a net-zero world.
That’s why today I’m releasing the U.S. long-term strategy, which presents a vision of achieving the United States’ goal of net-zero emissions economy-wide by no later than 2050 and reinforces an absolutely critical nature of taking bold action with the — in the decisive decade.
We’re also going to try to do our part when it comes to helping the rest of the world take action as well.  We want to do more to help countries around the world, especially developing countries, accelerate their clean-energy transition, address pollution, and ensure the world we all must share a cleaner, safer, healthiest planet.  And we have an obligation to help.
And the United Nations — at the United Nations in September, I announced that my administration is working with the Congress to quadruple our climate finance support for developing countries by 2024, including a significant increase in support for adaptation efforts.
This commitment has made possible to each of our collective goals of mobilizing $100 billion annually for climate finance.  But mobilizing finance at the scale necessary to meet the incredible need is an all-hands-on-deck effort.
As other speakers today have mentioned, governments and the private sector, and multilateral development banks must also do their work to go from millions to billions to trillions to — necessary affect to this transition.
Today, I’m also submitting a new Adaptation Communication laying out how we will implement the global goal of adaptation, as well as announcing our first-ever contribution to the Adaptation Fund.
But our commitment is about more than just financing;
that’s a critical piece of it.  We’re also going to support solutions across the board.
In the lead-up to this gathering, the United States joined our G7 partners to launch a Build Back Better World initiative.  We also reconvened the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate to launch transformative actions and to raise ambition.
And together with the European Union, we are launching a Global Methane Pledge to collectively reduce methane emissions — one of the most potent greenhouse gases — by at least 30 percent by the end of the decade.
More than 70 countries have already signed up to support the rapid reduction of methane pollution, and I encourage every nation to sign on.  It’s the simple [single]-most effective strategy we have to slow global warming in the near term.
My friends, if we are to recognize that a better, more hopeful future of — every nation has to do its part with ambitious targets to keep 1.5 degrees in reach and specific plans as to how to get there, especially the major economies.
It’s imperative that we support developing nations so they can be our partners in this effort.  Right now, we’re still falling short.  There’s no more time to hang back or sit on the fence or argue amongst ourselves.
This is the challenge of our collective lifetimes.  The existential thrength [sic] — threat to human existence as we know it.  And every day we delay, the cost of inaction increases.
So let this be the moment that we answer history’s call
here in Glasgow.  Let this be the start of decade of transformative action that preserves our planet and raises the quality of life for people everywhere.
We can do this.  We just have to make a choice to do it.
So, let’s get to work.  And thank you.
Those of us who are responsible for much of the deforestation and all the problems we have so far have an overwhelming obligation to the nations who, in fact, were not there, have not done it.  And we have to help much more than we have thus far.
God bless you all, and may God save the planet.  Thank you.  (Applause.)
3:06 P.M. GMT