WS : Climate Change Flashcards by Théo Guery | Brainscape

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Éviter

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Avert

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Extrêmement dangereux

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Exceedingly dangerous

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Difficile à nier

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Hard to deny

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Se diffuser

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To spread

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Un élan (à propos du changement climatique)

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A momentum (behind climate change)

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Un point de ralliement

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A rallying point

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Cercle virtueux

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Virtuous circle

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Prendre ses responsabilités

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To stiffen ones spines

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Minimiser le défi

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To understate the challenge

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Exploiter

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To tap

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Inefficace

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Feckless

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L’ambition exige d’élargir le champ des options valables.

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The ambition requires increasing the options available.

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Des subventions

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Subsidies

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Mener à, faire entrer

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To usher in

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Prendre la relève

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Take up the slack

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Rapporter (de l’argent)

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To yield

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Combustion fossiles

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Fossil-fired

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Laisser tomber

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To plump

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Commercialisable

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Tradable

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Constamment

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Steadily

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Réseau

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A grid

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Produire

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Pump out

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Valoir la peine

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Be worth

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Façon de voir les choses

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A mindset

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S’occuper de /traiter du réchauffement climatique

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To deal with global warming

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Un problème pressent/urgent

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A pressing issue

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Etre faible, piètre à faire qqchose

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To be feeble in doing sth

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Une économie hésitante

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Stuttering economy

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Dès inconvénients

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Disadvantages, drawbacks

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Un marché porteur

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A buoyant market

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Un secteur plein d’avenir

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A flourishing sector

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S’engagé dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique

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To commit oneself to fight againt global warming

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Engager, entreprendre

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To enter into

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être disponible (solution, méthode)

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to be on offer

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de vives polémiques

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fierce rows

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être d’accord

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to nod in

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faire pression sur les pollueurs

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to squeeze the polluters

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peser lourdement sur

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to bear down on

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des impôts

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levies

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un plan limité à

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a scheme confined to

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prélever une taxe

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to levy a tax

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exiger

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to require

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sévir contre

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to crack down on

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pot d’échappement

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exhaust pipes

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un besoin criant

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a crying need

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nourrir l’espoir

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to hold out hope

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débourser

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to stump up

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un projet voué à l’échec

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a dead-end project

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une usine

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a mill

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polluer/rendre l’air irréspirable

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to foul the air

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ralentissement économique

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an economic slowdown

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la falsification

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misreporting

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brumeux

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hazy

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l’air étouffant

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choking air

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faire pression

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to lobby

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de grands changements

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sweeping shifts

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incubent companies

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entreprises en place/existantes

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strict, sévère, rigoureux, draconien

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stringent

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voué à l’échec

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doomed

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d’emblée

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from the onset

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affliger, affecter, accabler, désoler

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to afflict

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présenter, créer, soulever, soumettre

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to pose

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volontariste

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voluntaristic

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la course à la compétitivité

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competitiveness race

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attirer l’attention sur, mettre en évidence (un problème)

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bring something to the fore