Global pollution: seeking solutions: BBC News Review

An international delegation meet to avert environmental catastrophe. Dan and Catherine teach you how to use language from this news story in your everyday English.

The story:
Environment ministers from about a hundred countries are meeting in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to try to finalise a declaration to combat pollution. Challenges include banning the use of toxic lead in paint and limiting the amount of plastic that finds its way into the ocean.

Key words and phrases:
Armageddon - a highly destructive event

pact - formal agreement

rampant - increasingly out of control

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The rampant environmental catastrophes have been hitting many a country and the armageddon potentially affecting the economy. In order to support each other the leaders have made pact between many countries

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[soothingclips]

Armageddon: a highly destructive event
( a war between good and evil that can cause the end of the world)
Pact: formal agreement
(Agreement to do or not do something)
Rampant: increasingly out of control
(Something negative and ready for action, also which cannot be controlled)

[АнастасияКурочкина-вч]

The situation in the world seems to lead to the Armageddon.
Last year we made a pact and haven't broken it yet.
The number of sick people is increasing it's rampant for us.