UNIT 4

Shaping a Sustainable World

Exploring a Sample Speech

A. Listen to the beginning of the speech and check (√) the correct information.

Script
We are all here today because the climate countdown has begun, and we are nowhere near where we need to be. Science tells us we must limit global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. We are on track for three degrees at least.
Billions of people around the world are already suffering from our failure to act, a consequence of our outdated addiction to fossil fuels. Climate disruption is causing unprecedented wildfires, more intense and frequent cyclones, floods, droughts, and other weather extremes.