Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

associated with consumption

French translation:

liés à la consommation

Added to glossary by Sylvie LE BRAS
Jan 10, 2019 08:57
5 yrs ago
English term

associated with consumption

Non-PRO English to French Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters environnement
Globally, resource-related climate change impacts ***associated with consumption*** are converging, with high-impact regions lowering their per capita impacts as low-impact regions were increasing theirs.
The per capita impacts show that some regions consistently cause above average impacts through consumption while other regions – particularly Africa – have only minor per capita consumption-related environmental impacts.
Climate change impacts have been increasing, due to private consumption in most regions, though strongly driven by the buildup of infrastructure in the Asia and the Pacific region.

La tournure de cette phrase me pose des difficultés. Je comprends que les impacts du changement climatique lié aux ressources convergent avec ceux liés à la consommation. Ça me paraît logique, mais j'aimerais avoir votre avis.

Merci

Discussion

Sylvie LE BRAS (asker) Jan 15, 2019:
@Tony & Chakib Merci pour votre concours, très utile !
Sylvie LE BRAS (asker) Jan 15, 2019:
@Polyglot45 Un grand merci, c'est exactement ça !
polyglot45 Jan 10, 2019:
en fait, ils disent, de façon compliquée quelque chose d'assez simple : à travers la planète, les effets du changement climatiques liés à la consommation des ressources (de la terre).....
Chakib Roula Jan 10, 2019:
@ Tony,
Hello and hope you are doing well.
I agree with your approach.
Tony M Jan 10, 2019:
@ Asker I think 'liés à...' is what you need here — but I also thing you are perhaps misinterpreting the text, which may be the source of your doubt.
It seems to me that the convergence is taking place 'globally' — it goes on to talk about the 'rapprochement' of high-impact and low-impact regions, and I think this is the 'convergence' they are talking about.

"Globally, resource-related (i.e. which are associated with consumption) climate change impacts are converging..."

might make it easier to follow.

Proposed translations

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liés à/ causés par la consommation

Veiller à limiter les impacts environnementaux de la consommation nécessite aussi d’observer les risques d’effet rebond
https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/europe/consumption-and-enviro...
https://www.ademe.fr/expertises/consommer-autrement/elements...
Peer comment(s):

agree B D Finch : Agree with "liés à", not "causés par". There is a very important difference between association and causation!
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3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Merci beaucoup"
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Combinés à la consommation

Suggestion
Peer comment(s):

disagree B D Finch : "Associated with" doesn't mean "combinés à".
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