Name: 氣候變化報告：富人必須為窮人買單：投資1.7萬億美元以適應氣候變化 - 新聞評論 (Climate change report: rich must pay for poor: invest $1.7 trillion to adapt - News Review)
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he's a review from BBC Learning English Hello and welcome to news Review the program where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English.

I'm Dan and joining me today is Catherine.

Today we're talking about the cost of climate change.

BBC World Service News report, A study of how the world can adapt to climate change says the richest countries must invest billions of dollars to safeguard lively hoods, coastal cities, food and water supplies.

The analysis has called for investment in early warning systems for storms on high tides and climate resilient urban infrastructure.

So a study by the Global Commission on Adaptation that's consists of 34 leaders in politics, science and business.

Now they analyze the world in terms of climate change.

They want to find out how to make the world more climate change with resilient.

Their recommendations, they say, will cost $1.8 trillion on this has to come mostly from the rich countries.

The benefit will be around about these a $7 trillion.

Okay, We've got three words and expressions that our viewers can use to talk about this story.

Yes, We have adopt gravely on dhe payoff.

Invest $1.8 trillion to attempt, adapt, change to fit the situation.

It's a vote BH The noun form is adaptation on.

The adjective is adaptable, so that would be abol for can so adaptable would be can yes, able to adapt Very nice.

If you adopt to something, you make a change in order to fit a situation that has also changed.

If you think about when you go on holiday or if you go to another town or city, everything's a little bit different, isn't it that people are different?

The food different Web raise where the shops are, everything's different and you have to kind of change the way you are.

If you have to start eating different food.

If you go to somewhere very hot, you have to drink a little bit more often.

You might have to change your clothing if you go somewhere very cold.

So you're changing because of a change in the situation around you.

In other words, you are adapting to your circumstances to make it more comfortable, more easy, more survivable.

And this is something that obviously, I mean, if you believe in the theory of evolution, this is something that species do.

They saying you get when it comes to evolution, is adapt or die.

So the theory of evolution says that animals adopted.

They changed physically what they ate, the way they look, that what they the way their bodies perform because off the circumstances around them changing.

So when when countries get hotter, animals change, maybe less for or they start eating different things in cold countries.

Yet you have polar bears and the white because of snow everywhere they've changed to suit their situation.

Two things are obviously these adaptations that we're talking about, they're quite physical but can Can we as humans can we adapt our behavior?

So if you start a new job, you might You know, you've got to get used to lots of different things that are happening now.

You accept that things are different, but adapting is about changing your behavior or changing the things that you do so that you get your able to function effectively in that particular situation.

Kind of an active and passive difference, isn't it?

You do things differently in order to succeed.

Let's move on to our second headline then, please.

World gravely unprepared for effects off climate crisis report.

Okay, So I'm familiar with the word grave, which is a noun, and that's a hole where we put a dead body and bury it.

No, it's not it might help you remember, but it's not related with eso gravely g r a v e l.

We have gravely ill, and that means very seriously ill.

Probably in terms of likely to die, you can be gravely wounded.

And again, this means that death is probable if you're gravely wounded.

Okay, um, we could also use it as an adverb of manner to talk about the way you do things so you can not gravely not move your head down.

More gravely, you can speak gravely about something.

So if you'll say giving a serious talk about a particular situation like really serious, you can speak gravely, probably with a slow voice.

You speak very, especially in the topic of climate change.

We have a lovely fixed phrase with the word grave G R a V E.

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