From climate change to the ongoing pandemic and beyond, the issues facing today's world are increasingly complex and dynamic.

从气候变化到持续存在的大流行病以及其它问题，当今世界面对的问题越来越复杂多变。

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"Climate change is accelerating beyond expectations," a joint statement said, pointing to factors including a retreat of Arctic sea ice in summer and melting of ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica.

专家们在一份联合声明中称，“气候变化的加速度已经超过预期”，并指出包括北冰洋夏季冰面减少，以及格陵兰岛和南极冰床融化等状况。

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We believe this will be essential to inform sound decision-making on policies to mitigate and adapt to climate change up to Copenhagen and beyond.

我们相信我们的所作所为对于哥本哈根及今后制定明智政策用以减轻和适应气候变化都是十分必要的。

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As far as fixing the problem, it helps that governments are moving toward harnessing alternative energy resources in order to tackle climate change--but the time line for meeting international climate-change targets by 2020 and beyond means policy changes are too gentle, the group says.

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Conference was intended to produce a framework agreement for climate change mitigation beyond 2012, as a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

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The US will probably need to explore novel sources of fresh water in the near future, with rivers in the southwest extracted beyond sustainable limits and with climate change threatening to push them further into the red.

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