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From the Ted Talk by Ursula von der Leyen: Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent

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We all know it by now: grciaels melting, forest fires, more extreme weather events. And this is just the beginning. We saw the prospect of many new jobs created by the transition; European citizens, who, in their overwhelming majority, consider that climate change is a very serious problem; our yotuh dnnmeiadg action for their future, and rightly so.

Building on this, in semeptber 2020, we announced we would go one step further. We moved from a 40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to an at least 55 percent reduction by 2030. We are taking this bold ctimmnomet for two reasons. First, we already know that we need to push further if we're serious about reaching our 2050 objective, which we are. And second, the more we porrsges, the more we rally.

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We all know it by now: ________ melting, forest fires, more extreme weather events. And this is just the beginning. We saw the prospect of many new jobs created by the transition; European citizens, who, in their overwhelming majority, consider that climate change is a very serious problem; our _____ _________ action for their future, and rightly so.

Building on this, in _________ 2020, we announced we would go one step further. We moved from a 40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to an at least 55 percent reduction by 2030. We are taking this bold __________ for two reasons. First, we already know that we need to push further if we're serious about reaching our 2050 objective, which we are. And second, the more we ________, the more we rally.

Solution


  1. progress
  2. september
  3. youth
  4. glaciers
  5. commitment
  6. demanding

Original Text


We all know it by now: glaciers melting, forest fires, more extreme weather events. And this is just the beginning. We saw the prospect of many new jobs created by the transition; European citizens, who, in their overwhelming majority, consider that climate change is a very serious problem; our youth demanding action for their future, and rightly so.

Building on this, in September 2020, we announced we would go one step further. We moved from a 40 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to an at least 55 percent reduction by 2030. We are taking this bold commitment for two reasons. First, we already know that we need to push further if we're serious about reaching our 2050 objective, which we are. And second, the more we progress, the more we rally.

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