Message by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on World Environment Day
聯(lián)合國秘書長(zhǎng)安東尼奧·古特雷斯世界環(huán)境日致辭
5 June 2023
2023年6月5日
This World Environment Day is a call to beat plastic pollution.
今年的世界環(huán)境日吹響了戰(zhàn)勝塑料污染的號(hào)角。
Every year, over 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide – one third of which is used just once.
全球每年生產(chǎn)的塑料超過4億噸，其中三分之一僅使用一次。
Every day, the equivalent of over 2,000 garbage trucks full of plastic is dumped into our oceans, rivers, and lakes.
每天相當(dāng)于有2000輛滿載塑料的垃圾車向江河湖海傾倒塑料。
The consequences are catastrophic.
我們面臨災(zāi)難性的后果。
Microplastics find their way into the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe.
在我們攝入的食物、飲用的水和呼吸的空氣中，微塑料無孔不入。
Plastic is made from fossil fuels – the more plastic we produce, the more fossil fuel we burn, and the worse we make the climate crisis.
塑料是化石燃料制品——塑料生產(chǎn)得越多，燃燒的化石燃料就越多，氣候危機(jī)也愈益嚴(yán)重。
But we have solutions.
但我們有辦法解決這一問題。
Last year, the global community began negotiating a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.
去年，國際社會(huì)為終結(jié)塑料污染開啟了談判，尋求達(dá)成一項(xiàng)具有法律約束力的協(xié)議。
This is a promising first step, but we need all hands-on deck.
這是充滿希望的第一步，但需要所有人身體力行。
A new report by the UN Environment Programme shows that we can reduce plastic pollution by 80 per cent by 2040 – if we act now to reuse, recycle, reorient, and diversify away from plastics.
聯(lián)合國環(huán)境規(guī)劃署的一份新報(bào)告顯示，如果立即采取行動(dòng)，重新利用、回收塑料、調(diào)整做法、使用塑料以外的多樣化材料，到2040年，就可以將塑料污染減少80%。
We must work as one – governments, companies, and consumers alike – to break our addiction to plastics, champion zero waste, and build a truly circular economy.
我們必須團(tuán)結(jié)一致——無論政府、公司還是消費(fèi)者都必須打破對(duì)塑料的依賴，倡導(dǎo)零廢物，建立真正的循環(huán)經(jīng)濟(jì)。
Together, let us shape a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable future for all.
讓我們齊心協(xié)力，為全人類締造一個(gè)更清潔、更健康、更可持續(xù)的未來。
