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最近，在13家同行業組織共同發布的研究報告表明，可持續發展方面的科學為我們建立一個更可持續、充滿希望的未來指明了一條更好的道路。
In recent, published research from The 13 peer organizations,science points us to a better pathfor building a more sustainable, more hopeful future for the Earth.
只要遵循科學的道路，在遏制氣候變化的同時，為全球發展持續提供能源，構建一個人與自然共同發展的未來。
A future in which catastrophic climate change is kept at bay while westill power our developing world.
在為全球100億人，提供充足的糧食、更清潔的飲用水的同時，保護我們賴以生存的陸地、湖泊和河流。
A future in which we can feed 10 billion people worldwide and provide cleaner, more abundant drinking water while also protecting life-giving lands, lakes and rivers.
保護生物多樣性的同時，也讓我們的城市因與自然緊密連接而更美好。
A future in which nature’s wild heart still beats strong through healthy wildlife and magnificent landscapes while our cities are strengthened by harmony with nature.
必須立即採取措施，行動起來。在下個十年結束之前，摒棄舊的發展模式，大膽地推進自然保護，尤其是在以下三個方面——改進農業發展模式，停止過度捕撈，增加清潔能源的使用。
Urgent action is needed. Here are three top ways we need to up-end 『business as usual』 in the next decade and act boldly to advance conservation：Fix Agriculture、Stop Overfishing and Ramp Up Clean Energy.
No.1
在更少的土地上產出更多的食物
Produce More Food On Less Land
目前，大規模地發展農業是土地使用方式轉換的最大源頭，大量開墾農業用地導致大面積的森林被砍伐，也加劇了氣候變化。
Today's version of large-scale agriculture is the biggest source of land conversion, drives deforestation that worsens climate change.
而且，農業還消耗了全球70%的淡水資源，對化肥依賴性的使用也對水源造成了汙染。
Uses 70 percent of the world’s freshwater supply and relies on fertilizer practices that pollute our waters.
為了滿足未來全球新增十億人口的糧食需要，農業用地的擴大發展會導致對棲息地更多地破壞，讓更多的二氧化碳被釋放到空氣中，讓更多的河流乾枯。
As the need to feed a billion more people increases, agricultural expansion could devastate habitats, release even more carbon into the atmosphere, and dry up rivers.
解決這一問題的方式就是，要因地制宜地種植糧食，以減少對水和土地資源的消耗。
How to fix it: Produce food where it's most likely to thrive, which will use less water and less land.
我們採取了哪些行動了呢？我們已經在嘗試通過分析衛星圖像和潛力產量來選取種植點，用以擴大大豆種植和畜牧業，並同時滿足不對自然造成破壞的條件。
How we're taking action right now？We’re analyzing satellite images and local yield potential to pinpoint where soy farming and cattle ranching can expand without destroying nature.
這一方法在巴西塞拉多地區尤為重要，因為在那裡一半的自然棲息地已被改造成了農田和牧場。和農民在可持續發展實踐上的合作，有助於保護塞拉多地區剩餘的熱帶稀樹草原。
This approach is especially vital in Brazil’s Cerrado region, where half of all natural habitat has already been converted to cropland and pasture. Cooperating with farmers on sustainable practices can help save what’s left of the Cerrado’s rich savanna.
向農業和畜牧業的轉變是對巴西獨特的熱帶棲息地最大威脅。自然保護協會正積極與全國各地的農民和牧場主合作，以確定他們如何在恢復森林和熱帶草原野生動物賴以生存的同時，生產更多的糧食。
Conversion to agriculture and cattle ranching is the greatest threat to Brazil's unique tropical habitats. The Nature Conservancy （TNC）is actively working with farmers and ranchers throughout the country to identify how they can produce more while also restoring the forests and savannas wildlife rely on.
No.2
終止過度捕撈
Eliminate Overfishing
過度捕撈和鬆散的漁業管理不僅威脅到魚類的生存，同時，因對海洋生態平衡的破壞，還會進而威脅食物網和海洋生態系統。
Overfishing and poor fisheries management is not only devastating to the fish species being pushed to the brink of collapse. It endangers food webs and ocean ecosystems by disrupting the balance of all sea life.
它威脅著數十億依賴海鮮作為重要生計來源和動物蛋白質攝入來源的人們。如果不作出根本性的改變，在我們有生之年，世界上84%的魚類種群將處於瀕危狀態。
And it threatens billions of people who rely on seafood as an important source of livelihood and animal protein. Without serious changes, 84 percent of the world’s fish stocks will be in peril in our lifetime.
如何解決：我們需要改進漁業捕撈方式，只允許捕撈那些數量尚在可承受範圍內的魚類種群，這樣，未來我們的海洋才會更加豐富、更加健康。
How to fix it: Refine our fishing methods to only take what the fish populations can tolerate now, so our oceans can be more abundant and healtheir in the future.
我們做了什麼呢？幫助漁民們快速、簡單、在其可負擔的範圍內使用大數據，實現可持續捕撈和管理他們的漁獲量。
How we’re taking action right now？We’re making it fast, easy and affordable for fishers to use data to manage their catches more sustainably.
比如在印度尼西亞，開創性地使用了FishFace這種「魚臉」識別軟體，這個軟體可以幫助漁民識別魚群的種類，並跟蹤記錄它們的數量，從而幫助漁民避免對某一種魚類捕撈太多或捕撈到錯誤的魚類。
Like image recognition software, FishFace technology we’re pioneering in Indonesia uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify fish species and track their numbers so fishers can avoid catching too many or the wrong kind.
發展中國家重要漁業的最大挑戰之一，是缺乏關於捕撈哪些物種和捕撈數量的數據。大自然保護協會正在開拓創新技術和數據工具的先河，這些技術和數據工具有能力幫助恢復魚類豐富的海洋。
One of the biggest challenges in managing vital fisheries in developing countries is lack of data on which species are being caught and in what quantities. TNC is pioneering innovative technology and data tools that have the power to help bring back oceans teeming with fish.
No.3
增加對清潔能源的用量
Increase Clean Energy
當前，全球面臨的最大威脅就是氣候變化。為避免最終的災難性後果，我們必需減少碳排放，使其水平低於或符合《巴黎協定》所指定的標準。
Climate change is the single most serious threat facing our planet today. We must reduce carbon emissions to, or below, levels agreed to in the Paris Climate Agreement to prevent catastrophic harm.
在未來幾十年中，全球對能源的需求預計會提升56%，如果不做出改變，仍堅持以傳統的化石燃料為主，是不可能達到減排目標的。
And with global energy demand expected to increase 56 percent over the next couple decades, it will be impossible to meet those emissions targets if we stick primarily with traditional fossil fuels.
我們需要將全球85%的能源供應都轉變為非化石燃料，並加大對植樹造林等可吸收二氧化碳項目的戰略的投資。
Shift 85 percent of the world’s energy supply to non-fossil fuel sources and invest in strategies like reforestation that capture carbon dioxide.
正在支持制定將以前的採礦用地允許被用於開發太陽能、風能的法規。在美國內達華州的大盆地，有數萬英畝的退化礦井，可以用於可再生能源的開發。
We’re championing regulations that allow former mining lands to be repurposed for solar and wind energy. Tens of thousands of acres of degraded mine sites in Nevada’s Great Basin are now available for renewable energy development.
通過精準利用這些已經退化的土地，在安裝新渦輪機、太陽能電池板等新能源設備的時候就不需要破壞更多的自然棲息地。
By targeting already-disturbed land, new turbines and solar panels won’t need to destroy more natural habitat.
一個公用事業規模的太陽能設施的規模可以和舊金山市中心一樣大。為了保護脆弱的沙漠棲息地，我們的目標是通過重新利用已經退化的舊礦區，鼓勵開發清潔能源。
A single utility-scale solar facility can be as large as downtown San Francisco. To preserve fragile desert habitat, our goal is to encourage the development of clean energy by repurposing already degraded former mine sites.
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