"When the bottom of the mountain is summer, the top is spring and while the foothill is autumn, the top is covered with ice," local people say of the special climate of Shennongjia.

当地的人们这样形容神农架的特殊气候：“山脚下是夏天，山顶是春天，山脚下是秋天，山顶被冰雪覆盖。”

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"They will suffer the most, as they are already," said Mary Robinson, who used to be a UN Special Envoy on Climate Change and a president of Ireland.

“他们将会遭受最大的冲击，正如他们现下正在遭受的这般。”曾任联合国气候变化特使的爱尔兰前总统玛丽·罗宾逊说。

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Victor Fodeke, head of the Nigerian special climate change unit, said: "Africa is on death row." It has been sidelined by some countries.

尼日利亚特殊气候变化部负责人维克多·弗德克说：“非洲现在死囚牢房中，受到某些国家的排挤。”

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"Terroir" is the word used to describe how a vineyard's soil and climate give a wine special qualities.

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John Pershing,Washington's deputy special envoy for climate change, says President Obama supports U.S.emission reductions comparable to the European Union and Japan, but wants legally binding commitments from other countries as well.

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"That will involve keeping countries happy with the division of labor as regards carbon trading, as regards how much they want to hold back their own industrial development, even though they say particularly many of the EU's new countries that they were poor for a long time, no different than the Chinese, that they have a right to develop their economy, that it is the rich countries in Europe that are more responsible for climate change than they are and they should get special treatment in any kind of EU position."

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Antarctica has a somewhat separate and special climate system from other parts of the globe.

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Earlier this month, Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) linked extreme weather to climate change in a special report.

FORBES: Climate Treaty Would Actually Be Good for Business

Speaking in Brussels, Gro Harlem Brundtland - the UN's special envoy on climate change - suggested there would now be a twin-track approach, with some of the important discussions taking place outside the UNFCCC umbrella.

BBC: Copenhagen climate summit undone by 'arrogance'