Le Retour: One Planet Summit
① Exactly two years ago the Paris agreement on climate change, which aims to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, was adopted.
② Today a follow-up shindig gets under way in the city.
③ When Emmanuel Macron, the French president, announced it in July shortly after his election, it was a way to rouse green-minded types in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to pull America out of the agreement.
④ Political leaders will meet with business leaders and bankers to discuss tricky issues around climate finance.
⑤ America wants to stop contributing to the UN's Green Climate Fund, set up in 2010 as part of an international pledge to transfer $100bn of climate cash a year from rich countries to poor ones by 2020.
⑥ Public actors will need to come up with an impressive package to encourage private ones to follow suit.
⑦ That may be the trickiest task of all.
▍生词好句
follow-up: n. 后续；跟进
shindig /ˈʃɪndɪɡ/: n. 盛会
get under way: 启动
rouse /raʊz/: vt. 唤醒；激发
in the wake of: 在……之后
pledge /plɛdʒ/: n. 承诺
follow suit: 跟着做；效仿
