Both energy and agriculture need to be "decoupled" from economic growth because environmental impacts rise roughly 80% with a doubling of income, the report found.

经济成长必须“扣除”能源以及农业部门，因为在国民所得加倍的同时，这两种产业造成的环境冲击也会上升约80%。

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In the long term, the process that a country moves towards a low carbon economy is that GHG emissions gradually are decoupled from economic growth.

从长期看，一个国家(或地区)向低碳经济转型的过程，就是温室气体排放与经济增长不断脱钩的过程。

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It would be reassuring to think that other parts of the world with sounder economies had decoupled from the U.S.-European problem and could serve as a global growth engine.

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