2016年CRI WWF Announces Winners of Climate Solver Award for Low-carbon Innovations

 

The award itself recognizes small and medium-sized companies in China that have taken steps to reduce their carbon emissions² or increase energy output through environmentally-friendly means.

The five award-winners this year are involved in solar energy, the production of renewable construction material, energy-saving in data storage systems and food waste recycling.

Its estimated the projects the five winners have developed will cut carbon emissions across China by around 2 tons by 2025.

World Wide Fund for Nature China Director Lo Sze Ping says the awards fit with the Chinese government's current plans for the economy.

"As China is adapting into the 'new normal', the country has entered into a transformation³ and upgrading period. Innovation will be the driving force of economic growth, and this will be a critical opportunity for both China and the world. The innovation and breakthrough in low-carbon technology will push forward this transformation."

Of the nearly 330 billion US dollars invested in renewable energy worldwide last year, about one-third has been spent in China.

Xu Qinghua, head of the China Council for International Cooperation on the Environment and Development, says increasing innovation has a dual-track goal.

"Tackling both climate change and China's economic transformation is an important part of the government's Innovation-driven Development Strategy. It not only contributes to the global climate change efforts, but also promotes China's national transformation and international technological⁴ competitiveness."

The Climate Solver Award comes on the heels of China signing-on to the Paris Climate Change Agreement at the United Nations last week.

Chinese authorities hope to have the deal ratified⁵ and implemented⁶ in China by September.

Among the agreements Chinese authorities have made is a pledge to cut emissions per unit of GDP by 60 to 65 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels.

Stefan Henningsson, Senior advisor⁷ for Climate Innovation with the World Wide Fund for Nature, says China's commitment to the Paris Agreement should provide a lot of opportunities for people hoping to make money through helping⁸ reduce climate change.

"The Paris Agreement, that all the countries committed to reduce emission¹, to increase renewable energy, is very important to the climate solver companies. If China has the ambition to reduce emission increases, which is also the need to do in Europe and the US to stay below 2 degrees, then that would provide a market for these Chinese climate solvers. That is an advantage for the Chinese companies, economically, that is an advantage for them of their growth in order to take on the market outside of China as well."

Climate Solver China, a program launched by the World Wide Fund for Nature 4-years ago, not only honors small and medium-sized companies for their innovations.

It also provides financing, technology information and international cooperation support to the 20 companies which have now won the award.

For CRI, this is Luo Bin⁹.

1 emission   

n.发出物，散发物；发出，散发

参考例句：

• Rigorous measures will be taken to reduce the total pollutant emission.采取严格有力措施，降低污染物排放总量。
• Finally,the way to effectively control particulate emission is pointed out.最后，指出有效降低颗粒排放的方向。

2 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

3 transformation   

n.变化；改造；转变

参考例句：

• Going to college brought about a dramatic transformation in her outlook.上大学使她的观念发生了巨大的变化。
• He was struggling to make the transformation from single man to responsible husband.他正在努力使自己由单身汉变为可靠的丈夫。

4 technological   

adj.技术的；工艺的

参考例句：

• A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
• Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。

5 ratified   

v.批准，签认（合约等）( ratify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The treaty was declared invalid because it had not been ratified. 条约没有得到批准，因此被宣布无效。
• The treaty was ratified by all the member states. 这个条约得到了所有成员国的批准。

6 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

7 advisor   

n.顾问，指导老师，劝告者

参考例句：

• They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
• The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。

8 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

9 bin   

n.箱柜；vt.放入箱内；[计算机] DOS文件名:二进制目标文件

参考例句：

• He emptied several bags of rice into a bin.他把几袋米倒进大箱里。
• He threw the empty bottles in the bin.他把空瓶子扔进垃圾箱。