For starters, finance provides an accurate yardstick to gauge if deeds are consistent with words. In 2011, “Unburnable Carbon,” a path-breaking report by the nongovernmental Carbon Tracker Initiative, showed that the proven fossil-fuel reserves owned by governments and private companies exceed by a factor of five the quantity of carbon that can be burned in the next 50 years if global warming is to be kept below two degrees Celsius.
首先，金融提供了衡量行动是否与言辞符合的准确准绳。2011年，非政府组织碳追踪计划（Carbon Tracker Initiative）发布了与一份突破性报告《不可燃碳》（Unburnable Carbon），报告指出，政府和私人公司所拥有的已证实化石燃料储备是未来五十年将全球变暖幅度控制在二摄氏度以内所允许燃烧的碳量的五倍。