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G7: World leaders promise one billion Covid vaccine doses for poorer nations
G7：世界各國領導人承諾為較貧困國家提供10億劑武漢肺炎疫苗
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57461640
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POSTED ON JUNE 13, 2021
原文內容：
Leaders of the major industrial nations have pledged one billion Covid
vaccine doses to poor countries as a "big step towards vaccinating the
world", Boris Johnson has said.
At the end of the G7 summit in Cornwall, the PM said countries were rejecting
"nationalistic approaches".
He said vaccinating the world would show the benefits of the G7's democratic
values.
There was also a pledge to wipe out their contribution to climate change.
After the first meeting of world leaders in two years, Mr Johnson said "the
world was looking to us to reject some of the selfish, nationalistic
approaches that marred the initial global response to the pandemic and to
channel all our diplomatic, economic and scientific might to defeating Covid
for good".
He said the G7 leaders had pledged to supply the vaccines to poor countries
either directly or through the World Health Organization's Covax scheme -
including 100 million from the UK.
The communique issued by the summit pledges to "end the pandemic and prepare
for the future by driving an intensified international effort, starting
immediately, to vaccinate the world by getting as many safe vaccines to as
many people as possible as fast as possible".
It also includes steps to tackle climate change, with leaders re-committing
to the target of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the
latest and pledging to eliminate most coal power.
Mr Johnson rejected suggestions the vaccines pledge was a moral failure by
the G7 as it was not enough to cover the needs of poorer countries.
He referred to the the UK's involvement in the development of the
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.
"Already of the 1.5 billion vaccines that have been distributed around the
world, I think that people in this country should be very proud that half a
billion of them are as a result of the actions taken by the UK government in
doing that deal with the Oxford scientists and AstraZeneca to distribute it
at cost," he said.
He added that "we are going flat out and we are producing vaccines as fast as
we can, and distributing them as fast as we can".
The target to vaccinate the world by the end of next year would be met "very
largely thanks to the efforts of the countries who have come here today", Mr
Johnson said.
The leaders slightly exceeded their target of donating a billion Covid
vaccines to poorer countries win the next year, if funding for future doses
is included alongside individual jabs.
There was also a commitment to build the frameworks to prevent and fight
future pandemics. Elsewhere in the 25-page communique, there were several
references to China, which President Biden said was a change from previous
meetings of the world's advanced economies.
Pledges made this time included working together to respond to China's impact
on world trade.
On the recovery from Covid there was even a reference to Prime Minister Boris
Johnson's trademark domestic policy - the need to reduce inequalities by
"levelling up".
Charities and campaigners issued statements calling out vague promises and
missed opportunities, but Mr Johnson will feel that post-Brexit Britain has
staged a diplomatic show that was both competent and confident.
Mr Johnson also dismissed the suggestion that patents for vaccines should be
waived in order to boost global supply, something which the US backed last
month.
He said he wanted to protect "incentives for innovation" while building up
manufacturing capacity, especially in Africa.
Elsewhere in their communique, G7 leaders also pledged to:
-improve early warning systems to prepare for future health crises
-phase out coal-fired power stations without carbon capture technology and
raise $100bn (￡70bn) to help poorer countries cut emissions
-support a green revolution that creates jobs, cuts emissions and seeks to
limit the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees
-reinvigorate their economies "with plans that create jobs, invest in
infrastructure, drive innovation, support people, and level up so that no
place or person, irrespective of age, ethnicity or gender is left behind"
-"build back better" by establishing a clean, green growth fund for
infrastructure developments in developing countries
-respond to China's impact on world trade and challenge practices which
"undermine the fair and transparent operation of the global economy"
-call on China to respect human rights, especially in relation to Xinjiang,
where it has been accused of abuses against Uyghur Muslims
-get 40 million more girls into education by 2026
The communique calls for a "timely, transparent, expert-led, and
science-based WHO-convened" investigation into the origins of Covid-19.
US President Joe Biden has previously said the US intelligence community is
split on whether coronavirus came from human contact with an infected animal
or from a lab accident - a theory rejected by China.
Mr Johnson said "the advice that we've had is it doesn't look as though this
particular disease of zoonotic origin came from a lab", but he added:
"Clearly anybody sensible would want to keep an open mind about that".
French President Emmanuel Macron said the international community needed
clarity about the origins of the virus but said it was up to the WHO to
investigate.
'Missed opportunity'
With G7 countries accounting for 20% of carbon emissions, Mr Johnson said:
"We were clear this weekend that action needs to start with us."
But pressed on the lack of binding agreements and timetables, the prime
minister says he will not "pretend our work is done" and he will be "on
everybody's case" to make further progress ahead of the COP26 summit in
Scotland later this year.
Kirsty McNeill from Crack the Crises, a coalition of charities and NGOs
including Save the Children and Oxfam, said the G7 summit was a "historic
missed opportunity" on Covid-19 and climate change.
Leaders arrived "with good intentions but without their cheque books", she
said.
Joanna Rea, from Unicef UK, said the G7 pledge on vaccines was "the beginning
of the action required to end this pandemic" but called for a "rapid
acceleration of dose sharing in the next three months to ensure millions of
vaccines get to the people in countries who need them the most".
機翻如下：
伯里斯-強生說，主要工業國家的領導人已承諾向貧困國家提供10億劑武漢肺炎疫苗，作
為 "向世界接種疫苗邁出的一大步"。
在康沃爾的G7峰會結束時，首相說各國正在拒絕 "民族主義的做法"。
他說，為世界接種疫苗將顯示G7民主價值觀的好處。
還有一項承諾是消除他們對氣候變化的貢獻。
在兩年來的第一次世界領導人會議之後，英國首相強生說："世界期待著我們摒棄一些自
私的、民族主義的做法，這些做法破壞了全球對該流行病的最初反應，並將我們所有的外
交、經濟和科學力量用於永久擊敗武漢肺炎。
他說，G7領導人已承諾直接或通過世界衛生組織的Covax計畫向貧困國家提供疫苗