VOA标准英语2010年-Pope Denounces Failure of Copenhagen C

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Pope Benedict XVI greets ambassadors to The Holy See during the traditional new year's address to diplomatic corps¹, at the Vatican, 11 Jan 2010

 
Pope Benedict XVI focused his annual address to ambassadors accredited² to the Vatican on the environment and the protection of creation. He denounced the failure of world leaders to agree to a new climate change treaty in Copenhagen last month.

In his address to diplomats³ from more than 170 nations accredited to the Vatican, Pope Benedict expressed concern about the failure to reach agreement on climate change at the Copenhagen summit last month.

Speaking in French, he said he shared "the growing concern caused by economic and political resistance to combating the degradation⁴ of the environment." The pope expressed the hope that an agreement would be reached to effectively deal with this question before the end of the year. Follow-up conferences are scheduled in Bonn and Mexico City in 2010.

Benedict didn't name countries responsible for bogging⁵ down negotiations⁶, but explained why the matter is of utmost importance. He said it has to do with the future of some nations, particularly island states.

Pope Benedict considers safeguarding the environment a moral issue. He has been dubbed⁷ the "green pope" for his increasingly vocal⁸ concern about protecting the environment. He told the diplomats that in order to cultivate peace, one must protect creation.

How can we forget, the pope said, that the struggle for access to natural resources is one of the causes of a number of conflicts, not least in Africa, as well as a continuing threat elsewhere?

The pope called for the "appropriate management" of natural resources, particularly in economically disadvantaged nations. He said enormous resources were going to military spending "and the cost of maintaining and developing nuclear arsenals⁹" instead of being diverted to help the poor.
      
Benedict decried¹⁰ what he called "indifference¹¹, amounting practically to resignation of public opinion worldwide" of conflicts such as those in Darfur, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.