Wolfowitz ‘tried to censor World Bank on climate change’沃爾福威茨'試圖檢查員世界銀行關於氣候變化的'
The Bush administration has consistently thwarted efforts by the World Bank to include global warming in its calculations when considering whether to approve major investments in industry and infrastructure, according to documents made public through a watchdog yesterday.布什政府一貫的努力，挫敗了由世界銀行，包括全球氣候變暖在其計算時，考慮是否批准的重大投資在工業和基礎設施，根據文件的公開，通過一個看門狗昨天。
On one occasion, the White House’s pointman at the bank, the now disgraced Paul Wolfowitz, personally intervened to remove the words “climate change” from the title of a bank progress report and ordered changes to the text of the report to shift the focus away from global warming.有一次，白宮的pointman在銀行，現在蒙羞保羅沃爾福威茨，親自干預，以消除的話： “氣候變化” ，從標題一家銀行的工作進度報告，並下令更改的報告全文轉移注意力從全球變暖。
But the issue predates Mr Wolfowitz’s appointment as president of the bank in June 2005.但是，這個問題早沃爾福威茨先生被任命為銀行主席在2005年6月。 According to the Government Accountability Project (GAP), which has tracked efforts to censor debate on global warming, environmental specialists at the World Bank tried unsuccessfully to press for consideration of greenhouse- gas emissions in a paper written - but never published - in 2002.根據政府問責項目（差距） ，其中有跟踪，努力檢查員辯論，全球氣候變暖，環境專家在世界銀行的嘗試失敗新聞界考慮溫室氣體排放在一份文件中的書面-但從未出版的-在2 0 02年。
It was politics that prevented the publication of that paper, according to one senior bank insider who spoke to the Los Angeles Times, and politics that has been the principal obstacle to progress since.這是政治阻礙出版這份文件，據一位資深銀行內幕誰談話，洛杉磯時報，和政治一直是主要障礙以來取得的進展。 Only now, with the Bush administration on the ropes politically and the scientific evidence for global warming reaching such critical mass that even President George Bush has been forced to acknowledge its reality, are those same bank officials trying again to put the issue on the agenda.只有現在，隨著布什政府對繩索在政治上和科學證據顯示，全球變暖的深遠的這種臨界質量，即使是美國總統布什已被迫承認它的現實，是那些相同的銀行官員試圖再次把問題列入議程。 “Our biggest obstacle has been that politically, [climate change] is very controversial,” Kristalina Georgieva, the bank’s strategy and operations director for sustainable development, told the LA Times. “我們的最大障礙已被認為在政治上， [氣候變化] ，是很具爭議性， ”人Kristalina Georgieva ，該銀行的戰略和業務主任，可持續發展，告訴洛杉磯時報。
She said that, even under the best of circumstances, it will be at least two years before the bank starts measuring the impact of fossil fuel-related projects on the planet’s health.她說，即使在最好的情況下，這將是至少兩年之前，該銀行開始測量的影響，礦物燃料有關的項目，對地球的健康。 “We are not moving fast enough,” she added. “我們不是移動不夠快， ”她補充說。 “It’s not possible to be moving fast enough.” “這是不可能的動議不夠快” 。
The GAP has uncovered evidence of one striking instance of Bush administration censorship.差距已發現的證據之一，突出的實例，布什政府的審查。 In 2006, the bank’s vice presidents responded to a request from the Group of Eight industrialised countries and commissioned a draft report entitled Climate Change, Energy and Sustainable Development: Towards an Investment Framework.在2006年，該銀行的副總統作出回應，要求從8國集團的工業化國家和委託草案的報告，題為氣候變化，能源和可持續發展：實現人人共享的投資框架。 They endorsed the report, according to the minutes of a meeting obtained by the GAP.他們贊同報告，根據該紀要的會議上獲得的差距。
Subsequently, however, Mr Wolfowitz’s office put out a memo asking the team to rework the paper, “shifting from a climate lens mainly to a clean-energy lens”.隨後，然而，沃爾福威茨先生的辦公室提出了一份備忘錄，要求隊返工的文件， “轉變，從氣候鏡頭，主要是一個清潔能源鏡頭” 。 The edited paper issued a few months later was eventually called Clean Energy and Development: Towards an Investment Framework.編輯的文件，發表了數個月後最終被所謂的清潔能源與發展：實現人人共享的投資框架。
The World Bank has come under fire from environmental groups for a number of decisions, including a recent grant to develop lignite mining and power plants in Kosovo.世界銀行已來下，由消防，環保團體對於一些決定，包括最近的補助金，以發展採礦和褐煤發電廠在科索沃。 Lignite - or brown coal - pollutes the air heavily when burnt and is generally regarded as one of the dirtiest fuel sources on the planet.褐煤-或褐煤-空氣污染嚴重時燒毀，並普遍被視為其中的骯髒的燃料來源於這個星球。
The investment appears to go against the bank’s own policy, from 2001, whereby it decided to try to phase out oil and gas investments by 2008 and to extend an existing moratorium on investments in coal mining.投資似乎違背了銀行自身的政策，從2001年，根據這一決定，設法逐步淘汰石油和天然氣的投資，到2008年，並擴大現有的關於暫停投資，在煤炭開採。
The GAP put out a report in March detailing similar problems at other agencies, most notably the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration which, among other duties, tracks hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena.的差距，提出了一份報告，詳細說明在三月類似的問題在其他機構，最顯著的國家海洋和大氣管理局，其中除其他職責，跟踪颶風和其他極端天氣現象。 The report cited “objectionable and possibly illegal restrictions on the communication of scientific information to the media” - including censorship of interviews and press releases.報導援引“不良和可能的非法限制，對通信的科學信息，向媒體” -包括檢查採訪和新聞發布。
More recently, the GAP has reported the Bush administration’s refusal to consider climate change as it prepares to expand the national air transport system threefold over the next 20 years.最近，差距已報導了布什政府的拒絕考慮氣候變化，因為它準備擴大國家航空運輸系統的三倍以上，未來20年。 A multi-agency group called the Next Generation Air Transportation System has simply ignored global warming in its past two annual reports.一個多機構小組，所謂下一代的航空運輸系統的根本忽視全球氣候變暖在其過去兩年的年度報告。
Mr Wolfowitz was forced to step down in June after it emerged that he had given a lucrative sinecure to his girlfriend and offered her excessive pay rises.沃爾福威茨先生被迫下台，在6月後出現，他曾獲得利潤豐厚的sinecure ，以他的女朋友，並提供她的過度加薪。
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