Questões sobre Interpretação de Texto

The current World Heritage List lacks of updating.

More than cooperation between governments, abundant resources are required to protect heritages at risk.

The United Kingdom’s conservation knowledge can barely contribute to the recognition of potential World Heritage Sites.

The conservation and maintenance of natural heritage will be prioritized by UNESCO.

Lord McIntosh shows some pessimism about the Memorandum of Understanding.

The three officials mentioned in the text presented their point of view about the MoU in the first person.

The Minister for Media and Heritage for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is responsible for the World Heritage Sites.

The whole MoU thing is to update the Caribbean Islands’ heritage.

One of the officials stated that the local communities must avoid using heritage conservation as a way of making their living.

Developing countries will benefit from the MoU as well as the United Kingdom’s experts.

“What do you say to critics, such as Jim Hansen…” (line 6)

“If you project forward the predicted growth in renewable energy,” (lines 17-19)

“So we’re going to need a broad mix of conventional and alternative energy sources.” (lines 22-23)

“We need to be working very hard on those now, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves…” (lines 36-38)

“... we ... are on track to invest $8 billion by 2015, as we said we were going to.” (lines 60-62)

building a huge wind energy project in Algeria since 2004.

investing in research projects to develop alternative clean energy sources.

reducing its contributions to the 400-megawatt hydrogen energy plant in Abu Dhabi.

working on a biofuel project with researchers at the California Institute of Technology.

competing with the Imperial College in London to develop flexible plastic solar cells.

coal is not an efficient energy source to meet the world’s present needs.

it is necessary to stop consuming so much electricity in the winter periods.

the use of coal as an energy source should be condemned in the near future.

the world must continue producing coal-based energy to avoid the shortage of power.

the energy generated from dirty old coal will not be useful to prevent blackout periods.