Rogers:
Earth Day Network
plans to build on the connections we have made this year, to deepen
and broaden the scope of our activities and the mission of Earth Day. For instance, our Global Day
of Conversation program has strengthened our relationship with 290 mayors and locally elected
officials in more than 39 countries. We are working with more than 1,500 NGOs worldwide on
climate change issues and building partnerships in many countries to create green schools. We are
finishing up plans for a global conference on women and climate to be held in Washington. We are
also planting 1 million trees around the world in partnership with James Cameron’s film Avatar
and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, and this vast undertaking will endure well after
Earth Day. Domestically, we will continue to push for comprehensive legislation to confront
climate change and to lay the foundation for a green economy.
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罗杰斯： 地球日网络 计划继续发展我们今年所建立的与各方的联系，深化并扩展 地
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球日 的使命以及我们各项活动的范围，例如，我们的 全球对话日 （Global Day of
Conversation）项目已经加强了我们与超过 39 个国家中的 290 位市长和当地民选官员的关
系；我们正与全世界 1,500 个非政府组织（NGO）就气候变化问题进行合作，并与许多
国家建立伙伴关系以创建绿色学校；一个将于华盛顿召开的世界妇女与气候会议的计划
工作已进入最后阶段；我们还正在与詹姆斯·卡梅隆（James Cameron）导演的巨片《阿凡
达 》 （ Avatar ） 和 20 世 纪 福 克 斯 家 庭 娱 乐 公 司 （ Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertainment
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）合作，在全世界种植一百万棵树，这个宏大的事业将在 地球日 以后很长
时间里继续进行；在美国国内，我们将继续推动全面立法，以应对气候变化，并为绿色
经济奠定基础。
Earth Day, celebrated on April 22 each year, marks the anniversary of the birth in 1970 of
the modern environmental movement in the United States. The first Earth Day led to the
creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air,
Clean Water and Endangered Species acts. By April 22, 2000, 5,000 environmental groups
around the world were on board, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people in 184
countries. Today more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the
largest secular civic event in the world. The Earth Day Network, founded by the organizers
of the first Earth Day, promotes environmental citizenship and year-round action
worldwide.
每年 4 月 22
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日的 地球日 （Earth Day）是 1970 年在美国诞生的现代环保活动纪
念日。第一个地球日催生了美国环境保护署（U.S. Environmental Protection Agency）,
《洁净空气法》(Clean Air Act) 、
《洁净水法》(Clean Water Act)和《濒临灭绝动植物保护
法》(Endangered Species Act)等一系列法案也相继出台。至 2000 年 4 月 22 日止，全世
界已有 5,000 个环保组织开展工作，深入 184 个国家的亿万民众。今天，有 10 多亿
人民参加与地球日有关的活动，使地球日成为全世界最大的非宗教公民活动。由第
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一个 地球日组 织者创办 的 地球日 网络
（ The Earth Day Network）组 织正在为 提
高全世界民众的环保意识和常年举办的活动积极奔走。
Secretary-General's message to People's World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth
Rights
Cochabamba, Bolivia, 20 April 2010
Mother Earth – our only home – is under pressure. We are making progressively unreasonable
demands on her, and she is showing the strain. For all of human history we have depended on
nature's bounty for sustenance, well-being and development. Too often we have drawn on nature's