Fighting climate change can be a sound investment, even though neither mitigation nor adaptation alone will be enough to “solve” the problem. To make a real difference, especially in the near term, the world must combine mitigation and adaptation with increased research and development into carbon-saving and sequestering technology, which in turn requires designing and exploiting market-based incentives.
对抗气候变化是一项很有益的投资，尽管无论是减弱还是适应气候变化本身都不足以“解决”这一难题。要真正带来变化，尤其是在近期内，世界在努力减弱和适应气候变化的同时，还必须加大对减少碳排放和碳封存技术的研究和开发力度，而这反过来又要求设计和探索以市场为基础的激励机制。