Activity 2

 

  ACTIVITY  2

 

 DE  ACUERDO  AL  TITULO  PRODUZCA   UNA   HIPOTESIS   SOBRE   LA   IDEA   CENTRAL   DEL     TEXTO   A   CONTINUACION:.

 

Apr 26th 2011, 17:30 by The Economist online

Rich countries are outsourcing carbon-dioxide emissions
WHEN a country reports its carbon emissions to the United Nations, it is the carbon dioxide that goes out of chimneys, exhaust pipes and forest fires of the country’s own territory that gets counted. But what about the carbon emitted elsewhere by people making goods that the country imports? A paper just published in PNAS by Glen Peters and colleagues looks at how the world’s carbon emissions get reapportioned when the carbon used to make traded goods and services is charged against the account of the ultimate consumer, not the initial producer. So while Europe may pride itself on emitting less carbon from its own territory than it did in 1990, from a consumption point of view the carbon embodied in imports from China alone all but cancels out the gain. In general the study finds that net embodied carbon imports into developed countries grew from 400m tonnes in 1990 to 1.6 billion tonnes in 2008—a growth rate faster than that of the world economy or global carbon emissions.

1.-   Traduzca    el   texto.

 2.-   Conteste   las   siguientes   preguntas  :
         a.-  Which   carbon   dioxide  is    reported   to   the    United   Nations?
         b.-  What   happens    with    the   one    emitted  elsewhere?
        c.-   Which   is    the   main    idea   of    the   recently   published   paper?
        d.-   According   to    the  author     in   what    ways    are    Europe    and    China  involved   in    the     emission   of    carbon   dioxide?
        e.- Which   is   the    conclusion?
       
3.-  a.-    Reconozca   estructuras    en    Voz    Pasiva.
      b.-    Ubique   pronombres   Reflexivos   e    Indefinidos.
      c.-     Subraye   estructuras   que   expresan   ideas    en  el   presente   y    en   el   pasado.