英国大学禁售牛肉以应对气候变化

原文：https://vegnews.com/2019/8/uk-university-bans-beef-to-fight-climate-change

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UK UNIVERSITY BANS BEEF TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE

英国大学禁售牛肉以应对气候变化

Goldsmiths—a constituent college of the University of London—will no longer serve beef, tax single-use plastics, and divest from fossil fuel in hopes of becoming a carbon-neutral facility by 2025.

金匠学院──英国伦敦大学的直属学院──将停止供应牛肉、对一次性塑料制品征税、并撤除化石燃料投资，旨在到2025年成为碳中和场所。

by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

作者：ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA

AUGUST 14, 2019

2019年8月14日

At the start of the new academic year next month, United Kingdom-based college Goldsmiths—which is part of the University of London—will no longer serve beef on campus. The initiative is part of Goldsmiths’ goal to be a carbon-neutral campus by 2025. In addition to banning beef, it will impose a 10 pence ($0.12) tax on plastic bottles and cups to discourage the use of single-use plastics, the proceeds of which will go to fund eco-friendly student initiatives.

从下个月的新学年开始，本部位于英国的金匠学院（Goldsmiths）──伦敦大学（University of London）的直属学院──将在校园内停止供应牛肉。为实现到2025年成为碳中和校园的目标，金匠学院特别推出了这一举措。除了禁售牛肉外，学院还将对塑料瓶和杯子征收10便士（0.12美元）的税费，以抵制一次性塑料制品的使用；征税所得收益将用于资助学生的环保计划。

Over the next six years, educators at Goldsmiths will compile a comprehensive plan to create future initiatives that will help the school achieve its carbon-neutral goal by 2025. “The growing global call for organisations to take seriously their responsibilities for halting climate change is impossible to ignore. Though I have only just arrived at Goldsmiths, it is immediately obvious that our staff and students care passionately about the future of our environment and that they are determined to help deliver the step change we need to cut our carbon footprint drastically and as quickly as possible,” Goldsmiths Warden Frances Corner said.

在接下来的六年里，金匠学院的教师们将编制全面方案，用于制定各项未来计划，以帮助学院到2025年实现其碳中和目标。金匠学院的院长弗朗西丝·科纳（Frances Corner）说道：“全球社会日益呼吁各组织机构认真承担其遏制气候变化的责任，这一呼声是不容忽视的。虽然我才刚来到金匠学院没多久，但很快清楚地看出师生员工们热切关心我们环境的未来，并且下定决心为尽快大幅削减我们的碳排放量而积极参与做出重大改变。”

“Declaring a climate emergency cannot be empty words. I truly believe we face a defining moment in global history and Goldsmiths now stands shoulder to shoulder with other organisations willing to call the alarm and take urgent action to cut carbon use.”

“宣布气候紧急状态不能是一句空话。本人真正相信，我们面对着全球历史上的一个决定性时刻，金匠学院现在正与愿意敲响警钟并采取紧急行动削减碳用量的其他组织机构并肩作战。”

Additionally, the school will install more solar panels campuswide, switch to a 100-percent clean-energy supplier, offer more curriculum options that focus on environmental education, and, starting December 1, 2019, will no longer hold investments in companies that generate more than 10 percent of their revenue from the extraction of fossil fuels.

此外，该学院还将在整个校园增设更多的太阳能电池板，换用100％清洁能源供应商，提供更多注重环境教育的课程选择；而且从2019年12月1日开始，如果学院投资的公司有10%以上的收入来自化石燃料的开采，则学院将不再保留对此类公司的投资。