Photo: Global Warming Inaction More Costly Than Solutions?

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Ignoring climate change may be more costly to the world's economies than investing in technologies to combat it, some experts argue.

Reducing emissions from industry, such as the plumes from a factory in China (above) and developing cleaner technology can stave off global warming's steady drain on the economy, they say.

Photograph by Greg Baker/AP

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