Apple has announced a plan to become carbon neutral（碳中和）by 2030. This new commitment ______ that by 2030, every Apple product sold will have net zero climate ______ .

"Business have a great ______ to help build a more positive ______ ," said Tim Cook, Apple's CEO. “The innovations（创新）powering our environmental journey are not only ______   for the planet—they've ______ us to make our products more energy-efficient and bring new sources of ______ energy. Climate action can bring a ______ age of innovative technology, job creation, and long-lasting economic ______ . With our commitment to carbon neutrality, we hope more and more companies will ______ us and create a much larger ______ .”

Apple's 2020 Environmental Progress Report has announced it plans to ______ emissions（排放物）by 75% by 2030. The company's 10-year climate roadmap will lower emissions by continuing to increase the ______ of low-carbon and recycled ______ in its products, innovate its product recycling, and ______ products to be as energy-efficient as possible.

Apple and 10 of its suppliers in China are spending nearly $300 million ______ projects to produce1 billion watts of renewable energy, which has generated（激发）commitments from over 70 suppliers to use 100% renewable energy. Once completed, these commitments will ______ over 14.3 million metric tons of CO₂ emissions each year. Apple also ______ to help protect forests and ecosystems in Kenya and Colombia, in partnership with Conservation International.

The company's complete plan and how it measures its carbon footprint can be ______ in its Environmental Progress Report. ______ on its supplier commitments can also be found there.

The Human Development Report, published annually since 1990, seeks to ____ “human development” around the world and calculates a “Human Development Index” (HDI 人类发展指数) for 169 countries. The HDI is ____ on average income, life expectancy, and level of education. ____, rich countries tend to have higher HDIs than poor countries, but there are interesting ____ in human development among countries with similar levels of economic development, because some have better health and education systems than others.

Almost every country in the world has a higher HDI than in 1990, despite the fact that since the 2008 financial crisis the total number of people living in extreme ____ has increased. The report concludes that most people are healthier, live longer, are more ____, — and that even in countries with severe economic problems, people’s health and education have generally ____. Although sub-Saharan African countries are at the bottom of the pile ____ human development, some of them have made significant progress since 1990. The report is ____, however, of the fact that economic inequality has increased significantly in the last twenty years, both within and between countries.

The greatest threat to HDI in the future, according to the report, is climate change. The way to increase average income in a country is through economic growth, which means increased production and ____. However, if this ____ to greater emissions of greenhouse gases, as has always been the case in the past, global warming will probably go faster, causing severe environmental problems in some parts of the world that will ____ the livelihoods of huge numbers of people. The progress of the last twenty years, ____, might not be sustainable .

The only solution, according to the report, is to break the ____ between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions — which, ____ to say, is easier said than done.

Melbourne Girls’ College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually _________ all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yards, _________ 1400 students and 140 staff to search their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will _________ daily non-compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste” lunch boxes will be _________. Students using only _________ packaging will receive a token (礼券) to win prizes such as keepcups.

The rubbish that students take home may _________ go to landfill (废物填埋场) via their home bins, but the new policy will help persuade people to buy fewer packaged _________ and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and _________, can be solved. Take uneaten tuna (金枪鱼) in a tin for _________. It can go into the school’s compost (堆肥) bin and the tin can be washed before it’s ____________ home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the ____________ or means to avoid foods in single-use packaging, “but we’re ____________ to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We ____________ a lot, as educators, about the bad problems the world ____________, but if we don’t start taking ____________ behind that beautiful idea, then it’s just empty.”