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religious freedom and the global climate. On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump¹ hosted an event calling for countries worldwide to stop committing crimes against people of faith and to get rid of laws that restrict the freedom of religion. While that meeting was being held, the U.N.'s Climate Action Summit² was going on. It was focused on the issues of global temperatures and carbon emissions³. Coal is a part of this. It's the main source of electricity for the world. It's significantly cheaper than most other forms of energy. And there's a lot of it.

But environmentalists say it's dirty and that burning coal to produce electricity is doing long term damage to the global environment. The Secretary General, the leader of the United Nations, wants countries to stop building coal plants and to reduce their dependence⁴ on the fossil⁵ fuel. And some nations like Germany have committed billions of dollars to doing this.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 summit   

n.最高点，峰顶；最高级会议；极点

参考例句：

• They climbed up the mountain and reached the summit.他们爬山，最终达到了山顶。
• The summit of the mountain is lost in the cloud and mist.山顶隐没在云雾之中。

3 emissions   

排放物( emission的名词复数 )； 散发物（尤指气体）

参考例句：

• Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
• Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。

4 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

5 fossil   

n.化石，食古不化的人，老顽固

参考例句：

• At this distance of time it is difficult to date the fossil.时间隔得这么久了，很难确定这化石的年代。
• The man is a fossil.那人是个老顽固。