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Assigning Historic Responsibility for Extreme Weather Events

Summary/Abstract

Recent scientific advances make it possible to assign extreme events to human-induced climate change and historical emissions. These developments allow losses and damage associated with such events to be assigned country-level responsibility.

Friederike E.L. Otto et al., Assigning Historic Responsibility for Extreme Weather Events, 7 NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 757 (2017)

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November 2017
Friederike E. L. Otto, Ragnhild B. Skeie, Jan S. Fuglestvedt, Terje Berntsen, Myles R. Allen
Nature Climate Change
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