National attribution of historical climate damages
@article{Callahan2022NationalAO, title={National attribution of historical climate damages}, author={Christopher W. Callahan and Justin S. Mankin}, journal={Climatic Change}, year={2022}, volume={172}, pages={1-19} }
Quantifying which nations are culpable for the economic impacts of anthropogenic warming is central to informing climate litigation and restitution claims for climate damages. However, for countries seeking legal redress, the magnitude of economic losses from warming attributable to individual emitters is not known, undermining their standing for climate liability claims. Uncertainties compound at each step from emissions to global greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, GHG concentrations to…
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