Q: the Durban Conference at the end of this year is unlikely to reach a comprehensive agreement on tackling climate change. Some countries propose to set 2015 as the deadline of reaching such a deal.

问：年底即将举行的德班会议可能很难就应对气候变化问题达成全面协议，一些国家建议将2015年设定为达成全面协议的期限。

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Membership in the Florida Association of Realtors is down 29% since 2006, although the number of Realtors could change by year-end.

佛罗里达州地产经纪商协会的会员自2006年以来下降了29%，不过经纪商的数量可能在年底前发生变化。

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A global gathering in Copenhagen at the end of the year will probably put that right-by bringing standing forests into the climate-change game, and into the global carbon-trading system.

本年末在哥本哈根的全球聚会可能将会将此纠正——通过将现有的森林纳入气候变化的游戏中，并进入全球碳排放交易体系中。

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Setting a limit on companies' emissions beyond which they must buy offsets is not thought to be on the cards, but hopes are growing that China will commit to some kind of non-binding target, possibly at the Copenhagen climate-change summit at the end of this year.

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And I think we have a strong chance to change that policy before Congress leaves the end of this year.

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The announcements by China and the United States follow the world's top economic powers acknowledging earlier this month that there was no hope of a major breakthrough over climate change by year's end.

CNN: China's premier to join Obama at climate-change summit