2016年2月3日VOA聽力：善士,商界倡導鼎力投資可再生能源
As Michael Bloomberg decides to whether to run forpresident, he continues to spread a message onglobal warming.
The former Mayor has a simple request: Keeppushing for change.
“The public is upset with all of those who say there'snothing going on, and then there's a flood wherethere wasn't water before, and then there's a drought where there used to be lots of water,and the ski resort that they want to go to doesn't have any snow.”
Bloomberg said the private sector and cities across the United States have made significantprogress,by closing 200 out of the 500 coal-fired power plants in the country.
He also praised the Chinese government for its recent initiatives on climate change, includingclosing four power plants in Beijing.
Also addressed investors, Christiana Figueres, of the U.N. Framework Convention on ClimateChange, said by 2030, the chapter on high carbon fossil fuels must be closed.
“There is a huge impact if we put money into the wrong fuels, into the wrong energy systems.”
The summit's organizer, Ceres-a nonprofit sustainability advocacy organization—hopes toaccomplish what it calls the “Clean Trillion” challenge:a renewable energy investment goal of$44 trillion, or $1 trillion per year, by the world's leading businesses and investors.
Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with champion the cause of climate change action,hasargued that the cost of renewable energy will sharply decline in coming years, providing nationswith a ability to do more to curb global missions.
The investment community, Gore says, has an important role in leading that effort.
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