Those decisions will decide whether humanity can avert catastrophic climate change.

这些决定将决定人类是否能避免灾难性的气候变化。

197 nations finally agreed on a deal aimed at preventing catastrophic climate change.

197个国家最终就一项旨在防止灾难性气候变化的协议达成一致。

It shows that cutting back on greenhouse gas pollution can slow catastrophic climate change.

它表明减少温室气体污染可以减缓灾难性的气候变化的进程。

HANOI, Vietnam - Coal, the fuel that powered the industrial age, has led the planet to the brink of catastrophic climate change.

越南，河内电——煤炭，这一曾经驱动了工业时代的燃料，已经将地球推到了爆发灾难性气候变化的边缘。

What would it cost to prevent catastrophic climate change?

防止灾难性气候变化需要付出多少代价？

At present, most businesses and governments are unwilling to make the additional two-percent investment necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change.

目前，大多数企业和政府都不愿意额外增加 2% 的投资来防止灾难性的气候变化。

Because we can't put a precise number on permafrost emissions, policymakers are essentially excluding them, setting global emissions targets that are wholly insufficient to protect us from catastrophic climate change.

因为我们无法对冻土碳排放进行准确测量，政策制定者就直接忽略它，制定无法让我们免于灾难性气候变化的目标。

It tells us that preventing catastrophic climate change is a totally feasible project, even though it would obviously cost a lot of money.

它告诉我们，防止灾难性的气候变化是一个完全可行的项目，尽管它显然会花费很多钱。

If humanity increases our annual investment in clean technologies and infrastructure by around two percent of global GDP, that should be enough to prevent catastrophic climate change.

如果人类将每年对清洁技术和基础设施的投资增加到全球 GDP 的 2% 左右，那应该足以防止灾难性的气候变化。

They are crying urgently for wholesale change against racial injustice, religious and ethnic persecution, catastrophic climate change and the cruel inequality that has left us more divided and divisive than ever in my lifetime.

他们急切地呼吁全面变革， 反对种族不公正、 宗教和种族迫害、灾难性的气候变化和残酷的不平等， 这些让我们在我的一生中比以往任何时候都更加分裂。

And even to prevent catastrophic climate change we'll need to make sure that the funds are invested in the right places and that the new investments don't cause their own negative ecological or social fallout.

甚至为了防止灾难性的气候变化，我们也需要确保将资金投资到正确的地方，并且新投资不会造成其自身的负面生态或社会影响。