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Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: I believe that it is within our grasp to move forward with tackling climate change.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Politicians have to deliver the framework for businesses like mine to operate in, for scientists and engineers to develop new lower carbon solutions, for businesses to develop lower carbon products and services that customers want to buy.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Who do you think has the most power to improve the health of our planet?

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Of course we need both scientists and politicians to help protect the environment, but it goes much deeper than that.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: I believe our environment faces some serious challenges from the changing climate and the sustainable use of global resources.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Whether you agree with me or not, we stand little chance of coming to well founded conclusions that are useful to either policy-makers or the environment.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: My experience of the interface between science and politics is that it is a difficult one.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: It is not enough simply to present the evidence and expect politicians to grasp what are often difficult scientific issues.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: The scientists have to work together with politicians and policy-makers to help them through what the science is telling us, so that policies can be based on sound scientific evidence.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Scientists need not be afraid of the political process as long as they understand their role within it.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Although there will be challenges along the way, the opportunities for business, and the incentives for action, are numerous.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: For example, Carbon Trust research has shown two thirds of UK consumers are more likely to buy from a business they think is taking action to tackle climate change with the same number saying they would like to know the carbon footprint of the products and services they buy.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: That’s why so many forward thinking businesses have already taken steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions and indeed display the Carbon Trust’s carbon reduction label, which outlines the carbon footprint of products.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: However, putting energy efficiency measures in place can also have significant financial benefits.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Most businesses can reduce energy bills by up to 30 per cent by implementing low and no cost energy saving measures.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: As an example, in 2005/06 alone, the Carbon Trust identified £390m of savings for UK businesses and public sector organisations.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: If we are to make a successful transition to the low carbon economy and succeed in decoupling carbon emissions from economic growth, we need to make reducing carbon as integral to normal business activity as profit creation.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Last year’s seminal Stern report helped accelerate this move by communicating in no uncertain terms that inaction on climate change will cost more than action.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Many UK companies are already setting the benchmarks for cutting carbon but we still have a long way to go. Businesses should lead the way by recognising the opportunities for taking action and in doing so, will benefit from new markets and commercial opportunities that emerge.

Укажите в предложении синтаксическую функцию выделенного слова: Scientists and polticians have always had a complicated and sometimes difficult relationship, often characterised by mutual misunderstanding.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Scientists, on the other hand, often feel their views are undervalued or ignored.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: They have long been warning about climate change - the evidence now is not much stronger than it was a decade ago - but only recently has the issue acquired political urgency.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: They would like governments to do what they say is necessary, not what might be practically achieved.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: What is really needed for substantial progress is for each side to understand one another better.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Politicians must grasp that science is necessarily uncertain, but that that is not an excuse for inaction when risks are extremely grave.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Scientists, for their part, must accept that politics is the art of the possible, and that the best cannot be the enemy of the good.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: This would provide solid foundations for an alliance that is going to be essential to addressing climate change.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: If that's the case, what should the role of business be?

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: At present, and until real external environmental and social costs are integrated into the prices of products and services, no company, no matter how well intentioned, can operate in a completely sustainable way and survive commercially.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: But that's not an excuse to sit back and do nothing. Businesses must accept the need for change.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: They need to understand not only the social and environmental consequences of their direct operations, but also those arising from their supply lines and products.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: And they need to contribute to the educational campaigns that are needed - whether run by the green movement or Government - to change people's understanding of the role they play in climate change.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: The good news is that the dialogue has begun and a common understanding is beginning to evolve.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: The challenge, as always, is to put the rhetoric into action.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: And the big question: can we all work together to do it in time?

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Anyone reading the International Energy Agency’s prediction that China’s carbon emissions will overtake the United States before 2010 may be left wondering why they should bother trying to tackle climate change.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: The reality is that the pressure on politicians to negotiate a new international agreement for significant reductions in greenhouse gases grows ever more urgent.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Within Europe it is encouraging to see the recent agreement by Heads of Governments for a unilateral reduction in greenhouse gases - international agreement will only be achieved by this kind of leadership.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: It demonstrates commitment to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and gives confidence for businesses like mine that they are serious in tackling climate change.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: We do however, at EU and national level, need to see policies which convert aspirational targets into real ‘on the ground’ action plans - they otherwise remain merely aspirations.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Let’s be clear, over the next few decades we will have to deliver a radical transformation in how we supply and use energy.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: As Co-Chair of the Energy Research Partnership, I have no doubt that research and development will change the way we approach energy and make better use of emerging technologies such as tidal and marine generation.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Not many people in England seem to care very much, but nationalist politics within the British (or is it Atlantic?) Isles take a significant step forward today when a politician called Ieuan Wyn Jones is appointed deputy first minister of Wales.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: As the first minister of Wales, Labour's Rhodri Morgan, was rushed to hospital for a heart operation on Monday night, Mr Jones, leader of the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, may have to become acting top man until Mr Morgan (a robust 67) completes his recovery.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: It is all a bit sudden, but the tectonic plates of nationalist sentiment are slowly shifting.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: In Edinburgh a minority SNP executive is managing to keep the buses running on time, and in Belfast Sinn Féin now shares power with Ian Paisley's DUP.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Alex Salmond has noticed and is drumming up support to revive moribund joint committees.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: So has that doughty British Unionist, Gordon Brown, who is proving friendlier than Tony Blair.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: Next week in Belfast he will meet them all (plus Dublin's Bertie Ahern) at the British-Irish council, the first such plenary session of what is also called, more romantically, the Council of the Isles, since 2002.

Укажите частеречную принадлежность выделенного слова: It was only last weekend that Plaid's national council voted by 92% to 8% to enter a historic coalition with its old enemy, Welsh Labour, which lost its dominant position in the Cardiff assembly in the May 3 elections.