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Arabic Vocabulary: Climate Summit Posted by on Dec 20, 2009 in Vocabulary

The Copenhagen UN climate summit (مؤتمر الأمم المتحدة حول المناخ) has attracted a great deal of media and public attention. In this post, I provide some words and expressions related to the topic of the climate summit from news articles I read about the topic. I think these are timely, and I hope they would be interesting and useful to readers. I also provide a link to Arabic articles on the topic from bbcarabic.com website.

قِمّة

summit

مُؤتَمَر

conference

الأمَم المُتَّحِدَة

the UN

الدُّوَل الصِناعيّة

industrial countries

الدُّوَل النامية

developing countries

اِتِفاق

accord/deal/agreement

المُنَاخ

climate

ظَاهِرَة

phenomenon

التَّغَيُّر المُناخيّ

Climate change

الاِحْتِباس الحَرَاري

global warming

دَرَجَة حَرَارة

temperature

اِنبِعاث الغازات

gas emissions

مَخاطِر

threats

النَّشَاط البَشَري

human activities

كارِثَة

disaster

التَلَوث

pollution

التغيّر المناخي – تغطية خاصة

(Climate change – special coverage)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/indepth/cluster_climate_change_tc2.shtml

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