10/01/10 19:05:06
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で、最初の方はわかったんですけど、最後の方の文がうまく訳せないので教えてください
In Madagascar, 6 million hectares of new protected areas are
responsible for 4 million tons of CO2 that does escape into
the atmosphere per year.
Canada’s national parks have an estimated 4.4 billion tons
of carbon stored mostly in peatlands and soils,
while Brazil’s Amazon system of protected areas prevents 8 billion tons
of carbon from being released.
One third of the world’s 100 major cities, totaling 1 billion people,
get their water supplies from a protected area.
The combination of storing unreleased carbon and protecting ecosystems should make protected areas a natural component
of any strategy discussed in Copenhagen.
The conference should recognize the role of protected areas as tools for permanent carbon storage and call
on countries to implement robust protected-area systems as a core component of national strategies to achieve land and marine-based emissions reductions.