A substantial portion of a national policy agenda that supports an individual country’s shift to a low-carbon growth path (boosting energy efficiency, for example) will not produce an economic slowdown; such an effort might even lead to higher growth rates than remaining on a high-carbon path would have delivered. On a first approximation, low-carbon paths are the dominant strategies, implying a completely different and far more favorable view of the incentive structures at work.
事实似乎并非如此。支持个体国家向低碳增长路径转型（比如提高能源效率）的国家政策日程有相当大一部分不会导致经济减速；甚至有可能带来比保持高碳路径更高的增长。在最初的近似（first approximation）中，低碳路径是主要战略，并产生了完全不同也远远更加有利的起作用的激励结构观。