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From the Ted Talk by Christiana Figueres: The inside story of the Paris climate agreement
Unscramble the Blue Letters
And here's the more important part: What did we have before? A very slaml handful of countries who had undertaken very reduced, short-term emission reduction commitments that were completely insufficient and furthermore, largely perceived as a burden. Now what do we have? Now we have all cetniours of the world contributing with different intensities from different approaches in different sectors, but all of them contributing to a coommn goal and along a path with environmental integrity. Well, once you have all of this in place and you have sihtefd this understanding, then you see that governments were able to go to Paris and adopt the Paris agreement.
Open Cloze
And here's the more important part: What did we have before? A very _____ handful of countries who had undertaken very reduced, short-term emission reduction commitments that were completely insufficient and furthermore, largely perceived as a burden. Now what do we have? Now we have all _________ of the world contributing with different intensities from different approaches in different sectors, but all of them contributing to a ______ goal and along a path with environmental integrity. Well, once you have all of this in place and you have _______ this understanding, then you see that governments were able to go to Paris and adopt the Paris agreement.
Solution
- shifted
- countries
- small
- common
Original Text
And here's the more important part: What did we have before? A very small handful of countries who had undertaken very reduced, short-term emission reduction commitments that were completely insufficient and furthermore, largely perceived as a burden. Now what do we have? Now we have all countries of the world contributing with different intensities from different approaches in different sectors, but all of them contributing to a common goal and along a path with environmental integrity. Well, once you have all of this in place and you have shifted this understanding, then you see that governments were able to go to Paris and adopt the Paris agreement.
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