10-24-07

全球領導人被促加快達成應對氣候改變協議 (World Leaders Urged to Speed Up Work on Climate Change Deal)

諾貝爾和平獎得主戈爾說，世界領導人明年初應該在聯合國開會，加快談判的速度，以達成一項應對氣候變化的全球性協議。戈爾說，這個聯合國會議應繼續定於今年12月在印度尼西亞巴厘島舉行的氣候變化會議的工作。參加巴厘島會議的談判代表將就氣候變化新協議展開談判，以替代2012年到期的京都議定書。

戈爾說，新的議定書應該在2010年就敲定，不應該等到2012年。他說，各國政府必須迅速減少溫室氣體的排放，以抵消全球暖化的影響。戈爾星期二在德國首都柏林舉行的氣候變化會議上發表了講話。

Nobel peace prize winner Al Gore says world leaders should meet early next year at the United Nations to speed up negotiations on a global deal to combat climate change. Gore says the U.N. meeting would follow up on climate change talks set for December in Bali, Indonesia. Negotiators at the Bali conference will begin work on a climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.

Gore says a post-Kyoto treaty should be finalized by 2010 instead of waiting until 2012. He says governments need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions more quickly to offset the impact of global warming. Gore was speaking Tuesday at climate change conference in the German capital, Berlin.

緬甸活動人士要求釋放昂山素季 (Burma Activists Call for the Release of Aung San Suu Kyi)

緬甸活動人士星期三在中國駐曼谷使館外集會，拉開了在世界各地為期一天的抗議活動的序幕。抗議者要求緬甸政府釋放反對派領導人昂山素季。集會將在亞洲、美國和歐洲的12座城市舉行，紀念諾貝爾和平獎獲得者昂山素季被軟禁12週年。

來自南北美洲、歐洲、中東、和非洲的諾貝爾獎得主在星期二發表的一封信中說，昂山素季被軟禁是緬甸軍政府暴政最明顯的象徵。昂山素季在1991年獲得諾貝爾和平獎。她在過去的18年裏被監禁和軟禁了將近12年。

Burma activists rallied outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok Wednesday, kicking off a day of protests world wide to demand the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The rallies are scheduled for 12 cities across Asia, the United States and Europe to mark the 12th year that Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, has been held under house arrest.

In a letter Tuesday, Nobel laureates from North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa called Aung San Suu Kyi's detention the most visible sign of the brutality of Burma's military government. Aung San Suu Kyi won the prize in 1991. She has spent nearly 12 of the past 18 years in prison or under house arrest.