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English to Dutch: Panama General field: Other Detailed field: General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Source text - English Although a very small country, Panama is used to getting attention, for reasons good and bad.
This Central American nation has often been in the middle of events with an impact far beyond its borders, from the engineering marvel that is the Panama Canal to the country's many political storms.
Even so, people here have reacted with surprise - and indignation - after seeing their country's name linked to a hashtag that is shaking the world.
For many locals, to talk about #PanamaPapers is in itself an injustice, as the name tarnishes the whole country with an alleged complicity in international tax evasion.
They claim the accusations should instead be directed at a minuscule segment of their society.
And anyway, they insist, the Panamanian companies involved were not doing anything different to firms in other financial capitals across the world.
Panama is indeed a large and sophisticated offshore financial centre, whose companies help manage, in one way or another, large fortunes from all corners of the planet.
But how does all of that money impact the everyday life of normal Panamanians?
For a visitor, the prosperity of parts of the country is evident from the moment the plane flies over the capital, affording the first glimpse of Panama City from above.
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n the margins of the Paris climate conference, where governments have made plans to keep the average global temperature increase below 2°C by 2100, scientists and policymakers discussed other air pollutants that also contribute to global warming.
Emissions of carbon dioxide have a far greater role in climate change, but short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon – soot – also speed up warming, especially in the Arctic. Black carbon is not a gas, but an aerosol, tiny particles produced from diesel trucks and cars, wildfires, agricultural burning, oil and gas production and shipping that are released into the atmosphere.
Black carbon is also causing the Earth’s climate to warm. A recent study found that black carbon is far more harmful to the climate than scientists once thought – its heat-trapping power is second only to carbon dioxide and it holds twice as much heat in the atmosphere than estimates made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.
But as its name implies, short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon don’t stay in the atmosphere for very long. Black carbon usually falls out of the air after about a week. If it lands on snow or ice, it darkens the surface and causes warming and melting by absorbing solar radiation instead of reflecting it. Consequently, the Arctic is very susceptible to warming that results from black carbon.
Translation - Dutch Hoewel het een klein land is, krijgt Panama geregeld goede en slechte aandacht te verduren.
Deze Centraal-Amerikaanse natie heeft al heel wat meegemaakt met een impact ver buiten de eigen grenzen, van de technische pracht dat het Panamakanaal is tot de verschillende politieke stormen dat het land heeft doorstaan.
Toch heeft de bevolking hier met verbazing – en verontwaardiging – gereageerd nadat hun land gelinkt wordt aan een hashtag dat de wereld doet beven.
Het is voor de lokale bevolking op zich al een onrecht om het over #PanamaPapers te hebben, daar de naam een aanslag doet op het hele land vanwege een vermeende medeplichtigheid in belastingontduiking.
Volgens hen gaat het hier echter om slechts een klein segment in hun samenleving.
Hoe dan ook, beweren ze, de betrokken Panamese bedrijven deden niets anders dan bedrijven in andere financiële hoofdsteden rond de wereld.
Panama is een groot en verfijnd offshore financieel centrum waarvan de bedrijven op de een of andere manier grote rijkdommen uit de verschillende hoeken van de wereld helpen beheren.
Welke impact heeft dit geld op het dagelijkse leven van de gewone Panamees?
Voor een bezoeker is de rijkdom van bepaalde delen van het land duidelijk vanaf het moment dat het vliegtuig over de hoofdstad vliegt en de eerste glimps van bovenaanzicht van Panama-Stad opvangt.
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