The Environment Flashcards by Chloé le calvez

Un écologiste

An environmentalist

Environment activist

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Écologie comme préoccupation politique

Comme science

Environmentalism

Ecology

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Defense de l’environnement

Conservation

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Écologique

Une problématique écologique

Environmentally friendly
(ecological se dit aussi)
Environmental issue/concern

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Image écologique de façade

Se préoccuper de l’environnement

A greenwash

To show concern for The environment

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Loi contre la pollution atmosphérique

Clean air legislation

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Pollution
Polluer
Pollué
Polluant

Pollution
To pollute
Polluted
Polluting

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Gaz

Gaz d’échappement

Fumes

Exhaust fumes

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Gaz à effet de serre

Greenhouse gasses

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Imposer une interdiction

Lever une interdiction

To impose à ban on sth

To lift a ban on smth

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Inoffencif

Harmless

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Nocif, dangereux

Harmful

Noxious

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Marée noire

An oil spill/ slick

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Décharge municipale

Jeter

A dump landfill

To dump

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Gaspiller

To squander

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La nature

La faune

Wilderness

Wildlife

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Une espèce en voie de disparition.

An endangered/ threatened species

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Prévision

Forecast

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Pluie

Rainfall

To get a log of rainfall

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Inondations

(Severe/extensive/widespread) flooding

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Sécheresse

Drought

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Dégâts

To cause damage (indénombrable)

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Canicule

A heatwave

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Calotte glacière

Ice cap

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Montée du niveau des eaux

The rise of sea levels

Déboisement

Deforestation

Industrie du bois | Exploitation forestière

The logging industry

Défricher

To clear forests for agriculture/crops

Les sols

Soils

L'érosion

Soils erosion

Agriculture/nourriture biologique

Organic farming/food

Cultures OGM

GM crops/foods | GMO : genetically modified organism

Énergies renouvelables | Non renouvelables

Renewable | Non-renewable source of energy

Passer à une autre source d'énergie

To switch To other sources of enery

Supprimer progressivement

To phase out sth

Incitations

Incentives

4x4 et camion

Truck | SUV

Voiture peu gourmande en énergie | Aui consomme bcp (énergivore)

An economical car | A gas guzzler

Voiture hybride

Hybrid vehicule

Transports publics

Public transportation (indénombrable)

Charbon

Coal

Pétrole brut

Crude oil

Gisement

A deposit

Prospecter

To prospect for oil

Forer

To drill for oil

Station de forage

A drilling site facility

Raffinerie

Refinery

Un pétrolier (navire)

Tanker

Centrale électrique

Power plant

Énergie solaire | Géothermique

Solar energy | Geothermal energy

Déchets nucléaires | Centrale nucléaire

Nuclear waste | Nuclear plant

Les biocarburants

Biofuels

rare, peu abondant

scarce

un barrage | une digue

a dam | a dyke

le rivage, la côte

shore

les matières premières

raw materials

services publics (ou privés) eau, gaz, électricité

Utilities

compteur électrique

meter

réseaux électrique

power grids

centrale nucléaire | centrale de charbon

nuclear/coal power stations/plants

fonctionnent au gaz

gaz-fired

énergies fossiles

fossil fuels

éolienne | champ/parc éoliennes

wind turbines / windmill | wind farm

des appareils électroménagers

appliances

isoler (thermique)

to insulate

évaluer le parc immobilier

to audit the housing stock

s'attaquer à (3)

to address sth deal with tackle

échouer

fail to doing sth

mettre en péril

put a risk

contenir, limiter

to curtail / curb

des normes draconiennes

tought standards

atteindre ses objectifs

to meet one's targets

réclamer, appeler à

to call for

un plafond d'émission

emission caps

producteurs d'énergie verte

green-power producers

imposé par l'état

state-enforced

un manque d'électricité

shortage of electricity

se mettre en conformité

to come into compliance

handicaper la compétitivité

to hinder global competitiveness

taxes aux frontières

a border tax

un émetteur de carbone

a carbon emitter

capteur de carbone

carbon capture and storage

déborder (rivière)

to overflow

contraignant

binding

prendre des engagements

to make commitments

faire un discours

to make a speech

tenir un discours

to hold a rhetoric

essence (UK / USA)

petroleum | oil

ceux qui disent que le changement n'existe pas

climate-deniers

ceux qui disent ne pas savoir si le changement climatique existe ou pas

climate-sceptics

dérèglement climatique

climate weirding

daire du covoiturage

to share a car

agriculture intensive

high-yield agriculture

empreinte énergétique

energy footprint

catastrophe

disaster

les enjeux | etre en jeu

the stakes | to be at stake

épuisser une ressource

to become depleted

schiste bitumineux

shale oil