Le Retour: One Planet Summit

① Exactly two years ago the Paris agreement on climate change, which aims to limit global warming to "well below" 2°C above pre-industrial temperatures, was adopted.

② Today a follow-up shindig gets under way in the city.

③ When Emmanuel Macron, the French president, announced it in July shortly after his election, it was a way to rouse green-minded types in the wake of President Donald Trump's decision to pull America out of the agreement.

④ Political leaders will meet with business leaders and bankers to discuss tricky issues around climate finance.

⑤ America wants to stop contributing to the UN's Green Climate Fund, set up in 2010 as part of an international pledge to transfer $100bn of climate cash a year from rich countries to poor ones by 2020.

⑥ Public actors will need to come up with an impressive package to encourage private ones to follow suit.

⑦ That may be the trickiest task of all.

▍生词好句

follow-up: n. 后续；跟进

shindig /ˈʃɪndɪɡ/: n. 盛会

get under way: 启动

rouse /raʊz/: vt. 唤醒；激发

in the wake of: 在……之后

pledge /plɛdʒ/: n. 承诺

follow suit: 跟着做；效仿