尼加拉瓜拒在巴黎會議上作出氣候變化承諾
It has been a while since the 6m people of Nicaragua did much to attract global attention.
600萬尼加拉瓜人已經有一段時間沒做什麼令全球矚目的事了。
But the Central American state burst on to the world stage at this week’s climate change conference in Paris when it became the first nation to declare it had no intention of publishing a national plan to combat global warming.
但在上週的巴黎氣候變化大會上，這個中美洲國家卻突然躍上國際舞臺，成爲全球首個宣佈無意發佈一項遏制全球變暖的全國計劃的國家。
That would be “a path to failure” said Paul Oquist, Managua’s lead negotiator, explaining his country did not want to be a part of a process dooming the world to “the hell” of dangerous global warming.
尼加拉瓜首席談判代表保羅攠基斯特(Paul Oquist)解釋道，他的國家不想參與一項註定會使世界墮入危險的全球變暖“地獄”的進程，那會是一條“失敗之路”。
More than 180 of the 195 countries involved in the Paris talks have volunteered a plan to combat climate change since March as part of an effort to forge a new global accord to stop global temperatures rising more than 2C from pre-industrial times.
今年3月以來，在參加巴黎氣候變化大會的195個國家中，已有逾180個國家自願提出了應對氣候變化的計劃，以求構建一項新的全球協定，阻止全球氣溫較前工業化時代升高2攝氏度以上。
Their number includes the strife-torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, which was struggling this year with Ebola, and most of the world’s poorest countries, from Malawi and Burundi to Haiti and Niger.
其中包括飽受戰亂折磨的剛果民主共和國、今年曾與埃博拉疫情展開鬥爭的利比里亞、以及大多數全球最貧困國家——從馬拉維、布隆迪到海地和尼日爾。
But Mr Oquist, who first revealed his country’s stance to the Climate Home online news site, told reporters the voluntary nature of the pledges meant global temperatures were bound to rise.
但奧基斯特告訴記者，這些承諾的自願性質意味着全球氣溫註定會升高。他最初是在在線新聞網站Climate Home披露尼加拉瓜的立場的。
“We do not want to be accomplices to the death, damages and destruction that a 3C or 4C world will represent,” he said.
他表示：“我們不想成爲幫兇，促成氣溫升高3攝氏度或4攝氏度所代表的死亡、破壞和毀滅。”
Managua’s snub to the Paris conference, known as COP21, is unlikely to interrupt the meeting’s central aim of striking the first new UN climate agreement in 18 years. Nicaragua accounts for just 0.03 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
尼加拉瓜對巴黎氣候變化大會的怠慢態度，不太可能擾亂此次會議的主要目標，即達成18年來首個新的聯合國(UN)氣候協議。尼加拉瓜僅佔全球溫室氣體排放量的0.03%。
As of Sunday, Nicaragua was one of nine countries yet to submit a climate pledge.
截至上週日，除尼加拉瓜外還有8個國家尚未提出氣候變化承諾。
The others were: oil-rich Venezuela, North Korea, Libya, East Timor, Nepal, Uzbekistan, St Kitts and Nevis and Panama.
這8個國家包括石油儲量豐富的委內瑞拉、朝鮮、利比亞、東帝汶、尼泊爾、烏茲別克斯坦、聖基茨和尼維斯以及巴拿馬。
