[(Title)] SA joins global campaign against marine litter.

South Africa has pledged to support the United Nations global campaign to eliminate major sources of marine litter such as plastics.

南非承诺支持联合国消除塑料等海洋垃圾主要来源的全球运动。

According to the UN Environment Agency, more than eight-million tonnes of plastic leaks into the ocean every year.

据联合国环境署称，每年有800多万吨塑料泄漏到海洋中。

The campaign was launched at the Economist World Ocean Summit in Bali, Indonesia recently; the #Clean-Seas campaign is urging governments to pass plastic reduction policies.

该运动最近在印度尼西亚巴厘岛举行的世界经济学家世界海洋峰会上启动；发起的"清洁海洋"运动正在敦促各国政府通过减少塑料污染的政策。

South Africa and Cameroon are the latest to declare a tax on plastic bags.

南非和喀麦隆是最新宣布对塑料袋征税的国家。

Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa will represent South Africa at the UN political forum on sustainable development in New York.

环境事务部长埃德娜·莫莱瓦将代表南非出席在纽约举行的联合国可持续发展问题政治论坛。

"I had my team coming from the Antarctica a year ago and they showed me samples of the plastics that have reached that part of the world and the oceans and it looked very scary.  If we don't do anything about this half of the oceans will be full of plastics.

“一年前，我的团队从南极出发了，他们给我展示了塑料样本，这些塑料已经到达了世界和海洋，看上去很可怕。

Oceans are a source of life and if we let the plastics go in the oceans and land that's a big problem.  We are working hard around that as well,  "says Molewa.

海洋是生活的源泉，如果我们让塑料进入海洋和土地，这是一个大问题，我们也正在努力解决这一问题。

The implementation of measures to mitigate the negative impact of climate change and government's efforts to protect biodiversity will be assessed during the United Nations high-level ministerial meeting in New York.

将在纽约联合国高级别部长级会议期间评估为减轻气候变化的不利影响而采取的措施和政府保护生物多样性的努力。

Molewa says,

”莫利瓦说。

"The mission to New York is about the meeting to evaluate how we are performing in implementing sustainable development goals. Bio-diversity of the oceans and land is extremely important.  So it's important that sustainable development goals are adhered to and implemented and that's what we are going to evaluate there."

纽约之行是评价我们如何实现可持续发展目标的会议，海洋和土地的生物多样性极为重要，因此，必须坚持并执行可持续发展目标，这就是我们将要考虑的问题。