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How to talk about CLIMATE CHANGE in English

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  1. how do you talk about climate change in english and with confidence let's find out [Music]
  2. hello this is keith from uh english speaking success and also if you didn't know i run the website keith speaking academy
  3. nice to see you here hoping to well help you speak better english give better answers and get a higher score on ielts speaking so today i'm going to take you
  4. on a rather quick tour of the key language you need to speak about climate change we're going to look at five things
  5. you're going to learn key terminology some advanced collocations some useful verbs some nice phrasal verbs and five some
  6. idiomatic expressions it doesn't get any better let's do it
  7. right let's dig in first with some terminology first one of course climate change of course this is the long-term change to the
  8. weather and the temperature in the world we're getting more extreme weather storms and flooding and so on and of course global warming as the planet gets
  9. warmer or hotter number two co2 not ceo co2 is carbon dioxide carbon
  10. dioxide carbon dioxide is one of the gases it's one of the greenhouse gases that contributes to global warming and
  11. climate change it's kind of seen as the baddie the the not good gas that is part of the problem the next one carbon emissions difficult to say carbon
  12. emissions can you say it great so carbon emissions is how much carbon we put into the atmosphere so when we burn fossil fuels
  13. like oil gas coal then what happens is we're putting co2 into the air this is the damage we do of course there
  14. are also natural carbon emissions for example from breathing or decomposition as well next one carbon footprint
  15. you know when you walk on the sand you leave a footprint in the sand you can see where you've been carbon footprint is the same idea it's how much
  16. co2 you put into the atmosphere and from your activities like using electricity maybe taking a plane somewhere or
  17. driving your car we can see how much co2 you're putting out that's your carbon footprint it can apply to a person to a company to an
  18. event the carbon footprint next carbon neutral the idea here is that when the co2 we put into the environment is the same as
  19. the co2 we take out of the environment then it's carbon neutral it's level so for example if you're driving your car to your
  20. friend's house you're putting co2 into the atmosphere from your car the fuel from the car however
  21. if when you get to your friend's house you plant a tree the tree will be taking in co2 and that can balance out so you're carbon neutral
  22. clever hey although your friend's going to end up with a lot of trees in his garden next
  23. net zero emissions to be honest it's the same as carbon neutral so all of the um the big governments
  24. around the world are now striving to be to have net zero emissions so that at the end of the day what they put out and
  25. what they bring in is going to be the same so there's no extra co2 causing climate change
  26. so you you'll hear governments talking about net zero commitments they have a net zero commitment to be carbon neutral in the near future so we all have to
  27. reduce our carbon footprints well there's things the governments can do there's things individuals can do that's the topic for another video
  28. finally renewable energy so we've got energy that comes from things like coal gold no coal gas
  29. these fossil fuels that once we've used them boom they're gone we can't renew them we can't use them again however things like the sun
  30. water and the wind we can get energy from these sources and they are renewable because we can use them again renewable energy
  31. so so sun energy from the sun we call solar energy energy from water we call hydro energy and energy from the wind we call
  32. wind energy there are others like geothermal but without getting too complex that's the main thing renewable energies
  33. that's what we're all talking about that's what we're all striving for well most of us great terminology done let's move on
  34. okay let's look now at advanced collocations so when you listen to governments and activists and organizations talk about climate change
  35. you're going to hear these kind of collocations they're used a lot um very very important first of all let's
  36. look at some words and collocations that use the idea of big something is big now people don't say it's a big challenge
  37. right because well you go okay well passing ielts is a big challenge so in order to make people wake up and to
  38. capture their attention often politicians and journalists use different words they will say climate change is an unsurmountable
  39. challenge unsurmountable means you cannot get over it it's an unsurmountable challenge can you say
  40. that an unsurmountable challenge great people could say well it has a big impact right deforestation that's
  41. cutting down trees has a big impact well okay or it has a serious impact much more powerful deforestation has a serious impact
  42. we could also say there's a big need to do that well yes i mean there's a big need to go running in the evening and get fit
  43. but talking about climate change there's an urgent need you'll hear this all the time there's an urgent need for us to reduce our carbon footprint
  44. can you say that there's an urgent need for us to reduce our carbon footprint lovely good another one for big is well a big change right we need to make a big
  45. change well that's not very exciting no we need to make a drastic change this sense of it's more than big it has to be radical we need to make a drastic
  46. change lovely great so we've looked at big what about easy now
  47. often we see other words for easy i'm just going to throw one at you and instead of saying there is no easy solution
  48. you often hear there is no straightforward solution straightforward solution can you say
  49. great so there is no straightforward solution to climate change okay there are some nice nifty collocations
  50. let's move on okay let's look now at um four useful verbs to talk about climate change
  51. with confidence i'm going to test you first to see what you say and then we'll look at the answer there are different possibilities
  52. so let's have a look the first one is to blank a target what would you say
  53. right so the most common is probably to reach a target here's your target and you reach the target if you listen to people talking at cop
  54. 26 the big climate change conference they're talking about the urgent need to reach the 1.5 target that is to limit global warming of the
  55. planet's surface to 1.5 degrees celsius so to reach a target you can say to hit a target to attain a target or to achieve a
  56. target all of those are fine number two to blank solutions
  57. okay now you may talk about to find solutions but i'm thinking not only to find but to implement solutions
  58. right so we talk about implementing solutions you could also say to put into place solutions
  59. okay so it's not only finding but it's making it happen that's the key thing next one number three
  60. to blank sustainable yeah this one's a straightforward answer to become sustainable
  61. right so we need our industries to become sustainable we need our lifestyle to become sustainable
  62. something that can carry on for a long time without causing harm or damage okay last but not least to blank emissions
  63. there are different possibilities but if we're talking about climate change then we're probably talking about to reduce emissions
  64. you could say to lower emissions um to cut to cut back on emissions the other interesting one is to offset emissions
  65. do you remember the friend with all the trees in his garden right what's happening there is you're driving the car you're doing something
  66. that's having a negative impact you're planting the tree has a positive impact so when you balance a negative and a positive then you offset the
  67. negative with the positive so there are lots of carbon offset schemes now where you can offset emissions by doing something positive
  68. for the environment i mean okay great nice useful verbs let's move on
  69. right next up phrasal verbs i've got four phrasal verbs for you a phrasal verb by the way is a verb plus a particle or an adverb adverbial particle
  70. or a preposition like in on out under away from um and often the phrasal verb is a bit
  71. idiomatic so the words don't mean exactly the same right for example to cut down a tree right is to cut down a tree it's very clear what it means but
  72. to cut down on smoking doesn't mean you're cutting your cigarettes it's more idiomatic it means to reduce how much you smoke
  73. so that's the first one right the cut down on coal we need to cut down on coal means to reduce cut down on how much coal we use we need
  74. to cut down on our use of fossil fuels for example cut down on number two very similar meaning right to reduce cut back on
  75. we need to cut back on coal we need to cut back on coal production
  76. nice number three also means to reduce but to do it slowly phase out there's an urgent need to phase out our
  77. use of carbon for example lastly we've got to give up something meaning to stop
  78. doing it or having it we need to give up our way of life give up give up we need to give up our way of life
  79. we need to give up our excessive use of coal water and fossil fuels for example
  80. okay i said this was a whirlwind tour a very quick tour let's move on next to some idiomatic expressions
  81. so let's look at some idiomatic expressions first of all do your bit to do your bit means to make your contribution
  82. to do something that is expected of you right so when it comes to climate change you can do your bit by eating less meat
  83. by driving less frequently by taking a bicycle instead a similar expression is to play your part you can play your part by turning
  84. off the lights when you leave the room next one kick the can down the road now a can maybe a can like this is a can of a
  85. drink when you kick the can down the road it means you're delaying making a difficult decision
  86. when greta thundberg went into the uh the un climate change meeting and she said how dare you because she knew
  87. that governments around the world were kicking the can down the road they were delaying the decision to act on climate change
  88. kick the can down the road can you say that lovely next one to grapple with an issue we are grappling with this issue but
  89. it's difficult to solve so to grapple with an issue or a problem or a difficulty is to try hard to solve it
  90. but it's very difficult so governments around the world are grappling with the issue of climate change
  91. nice next one face a problem head on head
  92. on here's the problem so instead of looking kind of to the side head on face the problem head on means to
  93. directly try to handle or deal with the problem so you may find with problems that we often try to avoid them or ignore them
  94. what we should do is face the problem head on and solve it implement solutions
  95. next one to put our heads in the sand or to put your head in the sand or if it's me i'm putting my head in the sand it comes from the famous bird the
  96. ostrich who we think puts its head in the sand and it means to ignore a situation i think you have this expression in
  97. several other languages so sometimes governments are accused of putting their head in the sand
  98. when they refuse to talk about climate change don't put your head in the sand look up
  99. face the problem head on the last expression is to make a dent in a problem to make a dent in a problem means to
  100. have a small impact not enough we often say we can't even make a dent in this problem we can't even make a dent in
  101. this problem it means we can't have any impact we can't reduce it again let me take my can thank you guinness not sponsoring
  102. but if i take a hammer and i can then i dent the can can you see that but that doesn't solve the problem right it's just a very small impact so
  103. i can't make a dent in the problem i can't even have a small impact i can't reduce it if we don't do something if we don't
  104. take drastic action to make drastic change um then we're not even going to make a dent in the problem of climate change
  105. that's it lots of expressions verbs collocations and things like that to help you speak with more confidence on the topic of climate change
  106. i hoped you enjoyed the video if you did please remember to click on subscribe turn on the notifications to find out about new and
  107. upcoming videos in the near future in the meantime go and check out my website keith speaking academy if you're preparing for ielts it's a gold mine
  108. full of interesting stuff see you soon my friends take care bye [Music]
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Klimaschutz↑ Global Carbon Project: Global CO2 pathways using Remaining Carbon Budgets. In: Figures from the Global Carbon Budget 2024. University of Exeter, 3 … DekarbonisierungDekarbonisierung oder auch Entkarbonisierung bezeichnet die komplexen Prozesse der Umstellung einer Wirtschaftsweise, speziell die der Energiewirtschaft, … Globale ErwärmungNach Abschätzung des IPCC sind 1,07 °C der 1,09 °C Erwärmung der Erdoberfläche zwischen 1850 und 1900 sowie zwischen 2011 und 2020 auf menschliche Aktivitäten … Negative EmissionenNegative Emissionen – auch als Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) bezeichnet – sind Ansätze zur Entnahme von Treibhausgasen aus der Atmosphäre.