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07.23 Innovation Sputters in Battle Against Climate Change应对全球变暖，各国科技创新投入不足 In the race to develop technologies to slow climate change, the world is off track. 在抓紧时间开发技术从而减缓气候变化的过程中，全世界都偏离了正轨。 That’s the latest assessment from the International Energy Agency, which presented a bleak outlook ahead of the planned climate summit meeting in Paris this December, where countries rich and poor are hoping to agree on a strategy to slow global warming. 这是来自国际能源署（International Energy Agency，简称IEA）的最新评估。今年12月计划在巴黎举行的气候峰会前夕，该机构发布了一份前景惨淡的展望报告。无论贫富，各国都希望在峰会上就一项战略达成共识，以便让全球变暖减慢。 Even under the more optimistic assessments of humanity’s technological capabilities, limiting the atmosphere’s warming to two degrees Celsius above the average in the preindustrial era — considered by many scientists to be a tipping point toward climatic upheaval — seems to be slipping out of reach. 即便是根据对人类技术能力较为乐观的评估，将大气变暖的速度控制在比前工业时代平均水平高出两摄氏度的水平，似乎也正在变得遥不可及。很多科学家认为，这个程度的升温将是气候剧变的一个转折点。 “For the first time since the I.E.A. started monitoring clean energy progress, not one of the technology fields tracked is meeting its objectives,” Maria van der Hoeven, the agency’s executive director, wrote in a foreword to the report. “Our ability to deliver a future in which temperatures rise modestly is at risk of being jeopardized.” “自开始监测清洁能源领域的进展以来，IEA首次发现，被监测的技术领域中无一达到目标，”IEA总干事玛丽亚·范德胡芬(Maria van der Hoeven)在报告前言中写道。“我们需要将气温升高控制在有限的程度，但这种能力恐怕正在受到威胁。” Deployment of renewable energy is progressing, but not fast enough. Nuclear power is behind the curve. Key technologies like carbon capture and storage, which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has deemed critical to staying within the target, are still in their infancy. 可再生能源的部署正在取得进展，但还不够快。核电发展落后。碳捕集与封存这样的关键技术，仍处于起步阶段。政府间气候变化专门委员会(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change)认为，碳捕集与封存技术对于让气温保持在目标水平以内是至关重要的。 The only commercial scale coal-fired power plant equipped with carbon dioxide capture technology opened last October in Canada. In the absence of a ca