During January’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Lord Nicholas Stern, author of a well-known report outlining the measures that the world should take to avoid runaway climate change, admitted that the planet is on track to warm by four degrees Celsius this century. Looking back, Stern said, his report could have been more insistent about the need to take determined action to avoid the catastrophic risks that this level of warming implies.
这些来自气候议会的呼声也汇入到了那些著名公众人物日渐增强的诉求之中——他们提出我们需要清理自身的能源使用习惯。达沃斯一月世界经济论坛期间，曾撰写过为避免气候变化失控而应采取某些措施的著名报告的尼古拉斯·斯特恩（Nicholas Stern）爵士承认本世纪地球温度有可能上升4摄氏度。斯特恩说，回顾过去，他的报告应更加强调我们必须坚决采取行动以避免这种变暖程度所隐含的灾难性风险。