Climate Attribution

California Wildfires: New Records Set by 2018 Fires

November 2018
Luis Gomez
The San Diego Union Tribune
This article describes the devastating effects of the California fires in fall 2018. At the time of publishing, the fires had burned 210,603 acres of land, destroyed 7,072 homes and structures, and led to the evacuation of 265,000 individuals.Read More →

Likelihood of Cape Town water crisis tripled by climate change

July 2018
Friederike E. L. Otto, Piotr Wolski, Flavio Lehner, Claudia Tebaldi, Geert Jan van Oldenborgh, Sanne Hogesteeger, Roop Singh, Petra Holden, Neven S. Fučkar, Romaric C. Odoulami, Mark New
World Weather Attribution
In this update posted to World Weather Attribution, scientists shared findings that climate change has significantly increased the likelihood of a "day zero" drought in Cape Town.Read More →

Consumption-Based GHG Emissions Of C40 Cities

March 2018
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40), University of Leeds, University of New South Wales, Arup
C40 Cities
This report presents the methodology and results of a study investigating the consumption-based greenhouse gas emissions from 79 cities, carried out by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40).Read More →

Assigning Historic Responsibility for Extreme Weather Events

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