人们需要更多的能源支持更大的城市运转和经济增长,从而导致了水坝的建设,随之而来的生态系统的洪水,以及污染物的排放增加。
The need for more energy to power larger cities and economic growth therein leads to the construction of dams, the consequent flooding of ecosystems, and increased emissions of pollutants.
即使是一个生态效率高得多的工业系统,如果它发展得更大,也会比更小、更不生态效率的经济产生更多的垃圾,破坏更多的栖息地和物种。
Even a vastly more ecoefficient industrial system could, were it to grow much larger, generate more total waste and destroy more habitat and species than would a smaller, less ecoefficient economy.
该伙伴计划鼓励各国对森林和珊瑚礁等生态系统的经济价值进行评估,以便将评估结果用于国家制定经济规划。
Partnership to encourage countries to assess the economic value of ecosystems such as forests and coral reefs, for use in national economic plans.
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