加拿大英文媒體偶爾讀

作為一個(gè)人口只有三千多萬(wàn)的小國（加拿大地理面積全球第二，但相比南邊的鄰居梅果，其政治文化影響力和經(jīng)濟實(shí)力明顯要弱一些，也不如歐洲傳統的幾個(gè)政治文化強國），加拿大的英文媒體在國際上的影響力遠遠不如英美兩國那些如雷貫耳的巨頭，那些影響世界的媒體如《時(shí)代》《新聞周刊》《泰晤士報》《紐約時(shí)報》《人物》《國家地理》《華盛頓郵報》《經(jīng)濟學(xué)家》……相信學(xué)英語(yǔ)的同志大都接觸過(guò)比比澀唉和喂鷗哎，相比之下，收看加拿大廣播公司節目(CBC)的人可能就少得多了。

　　從今日起發(fā)帖介紹加拿大媒體，并轉載一些文章。標題原本考慮取個(gè)“日日談”，轉念一想，不適合我這個(gè)懶人；改成“周周讀”，似乎也有些太過(guò)約束，于是取了本帖這個(gè)標題，算是對模糊語(yǔ)言的一次嘗試。

　　今天首先介紹一份加拿大最具影響力的報紙《環(huán)球郵報》the Globe and Mail

021yin.com/），根據那個(gè)墻內不讓看的喂雞百科的介紹：

　　環(huán)球郵報是一份于加拿大全國發(fā)行的英語(yǔ)報紙，以多倫多為基地并在全國六個(gè)城市印刷。每周讀者量***,000，是加拿大最大的全國性發(fā)行報紙，并居《多倫多星報》之后為第二大日報?！董h(huán)球郵報》被認為是加拿大最佳報紙之一。

　　對我而言，這個(gè)報紙的一大優(yōu)點(diǎn)是，印刷紙質(zhì)比較好，不像某些小報，看完之后糊得一手黑乎乎。

　　今天轉載一篇加拿大當地時(shí)間12月10日《環(huán)球郵報》的報道

　　標題：

　　New U.N. climate deal struck, critics say gains modest

　?。╯tuck原本想譯為“陷入僵局”，讀了全文發(fā)現理解錯了，不過(guò)依然感覺(jué)很難措辭，有人知道怎么翻譯嗎？）

　　正文如下：

　　Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.

　　The package of accords extended the Kyoto Protocol, the only global pact that enforces carbon cuts, agreed the format of a fund to help poor countries tackle climate change and mapped out a path to a legally binding agreement on emissions reductions.

　　But many small island states and developing nations at risk of being swamped by rising sea levels and extreme weather said the deal marked the lowest common denominator possible and lacked the ambition needed to ensure their survival.

　　Agreement on the package, reached in the early hours of Sunday, avoided a collapse of the talks and spared the blushes of host South Africa, whose stewardship of the two weeks of often fractious negotiations came under fire from rich and poor nations.

　　“We came here with plan A, and we have concluded this meeting with plan A to save one planet for the future of our children and our grandchildren to come,” said South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, who chaired the talks.

　　“We have made history,” she said, bringing the hammer down on Durban conference, the longest in two decades of U.N. climate negotiations.

　　Delegates agreed to start work next year on a new legally binding treaty to cut greenhouse gases to be decided by 201* and to come into force by 2020.

　　The process for doing so, called the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, would “develop a new protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force” that would be applicable under the U.N. climate convention.

　　That phrasing, agreed at a last-ditch huddle in the conference centre between the European Union, India, China and the United States, was used by all parties to claim victory.

　　Britain’s Energy and Climate Secretary Chris Huhne said the result was “a great success for European diplomacy.”

　　“We’ve managed to bring the major emitters like the U.S., India and China into a roadmap which will secure an overarching global deal,” he said.

　　U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said Washington was satisfied with the outcome: “We got the kind of symmetry that we had been focused on since the beginning of the Obama administration. This had all the elements that we were looking for.”

　　Canada’s environment minister has praised the agreement on climate talks reached in South Africa on Sunday, and said he was cautiously optimistic a new treaty can be concluded by 201*.

　　“The Durban Platform is a fair and balanced framework for responsible and effective action,” Peter Kent said.

　　The minister also reiterated his opposition to the 1*** Kyoto Protocol, saying the deal was not good for Canada, and the previous government should not have ratified it.

　　“We want to avoid another Kyoto-like pact at all costs.”

　　Yet U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres acknowledged the final wording on the legal form a future deal was ambiguous: “What that means has yet to be decided.”

　　Sunday’s deal follows years of failed attempts to impose legally-binding, international cuts on emerging giants, such as China and India, as well as rich nations like the United States.

　　The developed world had already accepted formal targets under a first phase of the Kyoto Protocol, which runs out at the end of next year, although Washington never ratified its commitment.

　　India’s Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, who gave an impassioned speech to the conference denouncing what she said was unfair pressure on Delhi to compromise, said her country had only reluctantly agreed to the accord.

　　“We’ve had very intense discussions. We were not happy with reopening the text but in the spirit of flexibility and accommodation shown by all, we have shown our flexibility... we agree to adopt it,” she said.

　　Small island states in the frontline of climate change, said they had gone along with a deal but only because a collapse of the talks was of no help to their vulnerable nations.

　　“I would have wanted to get more, but at least we have something to work with. All is not lost yet,” said Selwin Hart, chief negotiator on finance for the coalition of small states.

　　Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, head of the Africa Group, added: “It’s a middle ground, we meet mid-way. Of course we are not completely happy about the outcome, it lacks balance, but we believe it is starting to go into the right direction.”

　　U.N. reports released in the last month warned delays on a global agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions will make it harder to keep the average rise to within two degrees Celsius over the next century.

　　“It’s certainly not the deal the planet needs -- such a deal would have delivered much greater ambition on both emissions reductions and finance,” said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

　　“Producing a new treaty by 201* that is both ambitious and fair will take a mix tough bargaining and a more collaborative spirit than we saw in the Durban conference centre these past two weeks.”