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USEFUL VOCABULARY

VERBS

Release – publicar/ lanzarse 

Echo – repetir 

Deliver – entregar 

 

EXPRESSIONS

Back-to-back – happening one after another, without interruption. 

In the cold light day – when considered calmly and dispassionately, without the charge of emotions felt at the time sth. happened. 

An elephant in the room – there is an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about. 

 

Advisory – consultivo 

Strenuous – agotador 

Outstanding – excepcional 

Bleaching – blanqueamiento/ de blanqueo 

Overall – en general/ total 

Reef – arrecife 

Spokesman – portavoz 

Currently 

Attainable 

Assessment 

Concern – preocupación 

Surrounding 

A wake-up call 

In-danger list 

Reassess 

Scrutiny 

Prior – previo 

Committed – comprometido 

Paris COP21 What is it? Are our gouvernements going to do something for the climate change?

Paris COP21 What is it? Are our gouvernements  going to do something for the climate change?

For two weeks, from 30th November to 11th December, representatives of 195 countries will meet in Paris for the COP21, and what is the COP21? The COP21 is the 21st Conference of the Parties, the annual meeting of all countries which want to take action for the climate. And the most important matter, what are the main goals? Their main goal is that they want to reduce their emissions of CO2 so that Earth doesn’t get warmer than 2ºC. 

One of the problems that they are having is that the attacks of Paris were so recent that they can't give lectures in public and they have to be at every moment with a lot of security. As a result of the attacks all the presidents are giving their condolences to the victims. Another big problem in relation with this conference is that emerging countries don’t want to take part in this meeting, because most of them still use too much non-renewable energy, and that can be determinant in the end, because they are the most polluting countries.

In addition, this conference is more important than others, because now rich countries like the USA or China, which haven't wanted to respect the limits of pollution in the past, have now realized that renewable energies are more economic in the long term, so they are now in favour to reduce their pollution in their countries. Moreover, they want to promote this to poor countries, setting their renewable factories there (and for not paying taxes).

From my point of view, it’s good that we have this type of conferences, but we need to take practical measures, because if we don’t do something fast, we will finish with our planet. In Spain, we have had two alerts because of pollution and in two cities (Madrid and Oviedo) people couldn’t use their cars for a couple of days. I don’t know you, but I want to breathe fresh air.