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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.这里是美国之声慢速英语健康报道。
The United Nations Environment Program is calling for urgent action to reduce what it says are growing risks from chemicals. The agency says in a new report that better management of chemicals could savemillions of lives and billions of dollars.
[/en联合国环境规划署正在呼吁采取紧急行动，减少来日益增长的化工产品的危害。该机构声称在新的报告中更好的化工品管理能够拯救无数的生命和节约数以亿计的钱财。
[en]The Global Chemicals Outlook report will be discussed next week in Nairobi at the InternationalConference on Chemicals Management.
国际化学品管理会议将于下一周在内罗比讨论这份《全球化学品前景报告》。
An estimated one hundred forty-three thousand chemicals are now produced. Yet the report says only a small number of these chemicals have been studied for their effects on human health and the environment. It says death and disability rates are high from the unsafe use of chemical products.
现在预计有14.3万种化学品已经被生产了。然而，这个报道指出人们仅仅只对一小部分化学品研究了它们对于人体健康和环境的影响。报道称因不安全使用化学品而导致死亡和伤残的概率是非常高的。
Sylvie Lemmet is director of the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics at the U.N. Environment Program. She says poor management of chemicals has a high economic cost. For example, she says the cost is higher than the amount of overseas development aid, or ODA, for health care in sub-Saharan Africa.
西尔维·莱蒙特是联合国环境规划署科技、工业和经济司司长。她说化学物品管理不当会产生很高的经济成本。比如，她说成本比海外发展援助在撒哈拉以南非洲用于医疗的投入要高。
SYLVIE LEMMET: "If you look at the estimated cost of poisoning from pesticide in sub-Saharan Africa, only the injury and the loss of working time is estimated to be 6.3 billion U.S. dollars in two thousand nine. This is higher than the total ODA that is going to the health sector in the same area."
]西尔维·莱蒙特说：“如果你看看撒哈拉以南非洲杀虫剂中毒的预估成本，2009年仅受伤和工时损失就达到大约63亿美元，仅受伤和工时损失就达到大约63亿美元，这比该地区医疗部门将接受的海外发展援助总额要多。
The U.N. Environment Program estimates that chemical sales worldwide will increase by around three percent a year until twenty-fifty. Chemical production is moving quickly from developed to developing countries. By twenty-twenty, chemical production is expected to increase by forty percent in Africa and the Middle East and thirty-three percent in Latin America.
联合国环境规划署预估化学品直到2050年全世界范围内的销售将会增加3%。化学品的生产正在快速的向发展中国家转移。在2020年，预计化学品生产会在非洲和中东增加40%，在拉丁美洲增加33%。
The agency says one of its biggest concerns is pollution of rivers and lakes by pesticides and fertilizer. Other major concerns are heavy-metal pollution from the production of cement and textiles, and dioxin pollution from mining.该机构说最大的一个担忧是杀虫剂和肥料对河流和湖泊的污染。另外一个主要的担忧是来自生产水泥和纺织品的重金属污染，还有来自于采矿的二噁英污染。
The World Health Organization estimates that more than twenty-five percent of all cases of disease are linked to environmental causes. Maria Neira is director of the WHO's Department of Public Health and Environment. She says almost five million deaths from these diseases can be blamed on exposure to certain chemicals. 世界卫生组织评估，所有的疾病中，超过25%的的疾病都和环境因素有关。卫生和环境司司长，玛瑞安·妮拉说：“几乎500万这类疾病的死亡可以归咎于某些化学物质的释放。
MARIA NEIRA: "It is an enormous figure -- 4.9 million deaths that could be avoided if we have better management in reducing exposure to those chemicals. Obviously, this figure is a very, is an underestimation."
玛瑞安·妮拉说：“这个数据非常巨大，假如我们有更好减少这些化学物的释放的管理，490万例死亡都可以避免。很明显，这个数据被严重低估了。”
The U.N. report urges the chemical industry and governments to work together to develop safety policies. It says preventing harm costs less than fixing it.
联合国的这份报告敦促化学工业和政府部门协作以建立更安全的方针。联合国称预防成本要低于修复成本。
And that's the VOA Special English Health Report. I'm Steve Ember.
这里是美国之声慢速英语。我是史提夫·安伯。 | 
发表于 2016-8-2 11:23:40