海事组织对当前环境挑战的回应(英汉对照).pdfVIP

IMO’s Response to Current Environmental Challenges Efthimios E. Mitropoulos 海事组织对当前环境挑战的回应 国际海事组织秘书长米乔普拉斯先生的致辞 “Safe, secure and efficient shipping on clean oceans” is always the IMO’s objective. “海运的安全、高效与环保”是国际海事组织的一贯宗旨。 There is today, quite rightly, a growing concern for our 今天，人们对自己的环境日益关切，还 environment and a genuine fear that, if we do not change our 真的担心如果我们现在不改变方式，我们对 ways right now, the damage we will inflict on our planet will 自己星球的破坏将使它难以维系，难以为子 render it incapable of sustaining － for future generations － 孙后代维系我们在过去两个世纪的大部分 the economy we have grown accustomed to over the better part 时间里所习惯的经济，这是有道理的。 of the past two centuries. The environmental credentials of every country and 现在，每一国家的环境可信度比以往任 industry are now under sharper scrutiny than ever before. The 何时候都备受关注。每一位潜在污染者、每 pressure is mounting for every potential polluter, every user of 一位能源用户以及每一位明显造成气候变 energy and every conspicuous contributor to climate change and 化和全球变暖的人都在承受日渐增大的压 global warming to clean up their act and adopt greener practices. 力，要自我改进和奉行更绿色的做法。对此 The transport industry is no exception to such scrutiny and 种关注及压力，运输业也不例外。确实，它 pressure; indeed, it seems to attract more than its fair share of 在此方面似乎受到过多的关注，肯定足以确 attention in this regard － certainly enough to ensure that 保对环境的关心占据其所有部门的日程上 environmental concerns are now high on the agenda in all of its 的优先位置。 sectors. Statistics reveal that, of all modes of transport, shipping is 统计表明：如考虑到其生产价值，在各 the least environmentally damaging when its productive value is 种运输方式中，航运