US EditionStanford Study: US Carbon Emissions Cost World $10T
The study finds U.S. emissions since 1990 caused $10 trillion in global damages and future costs could be at least 10 times higher, impacting vulnerable countries and economies worldwide.
- On Wednesday, a Stanford University study published in Nature linked the United States to $10.2 trillion in global climate damages since 1990, with China and the European Union also identified as major sources.
- Researchers developed a quantitative framework linking warming temperatures to GDP, finding that emissions from Saudi Aramco caused $3 trillion in cumulative global economic damages between 1988 and 2015.
- Future climate costs from past emissions will be 10 times higher than previously incurred damages; one tonne of CO2 emitted in 1990 will cause $1,840 in damages through 2100.
- Lead author Marshall Burke stated the study provides scientific guidance but does not answer the "legal and ethical" question of compensation, as data excludes areas "poorly captured in GDP data."
- As a wave of lawsuits seeks accountability for climate "loss and damage," individual actions such as reducing driving by 10% could generate $6,000 in reduced future damages over a decade.
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Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon
Climate change is causing measurable harm globally1,2. Political and legal efforts seek to link these damages with specific emissions, including in discussions of loss and damage (L&D)3,4; however, no quantitative definition of L&D exists5,6, nor is there a framework to link past and future emissions from specific sources to monetized, location-specific damages. Here we develop such a framework, which is integrated with recent efforts to…
US Emissions Have Caused $10T in Global Damage
The United States' role in warming the planet just got a price tag, and it's a staggering one: roughly $10 trillion in economic damage worldwide since 1990, per a new study in Nature . Researchers say no country has slowed global growth more through its greenhouse gas emissions, with China close...
The economic cost of carbon dioxide emissions far exceeds previous market estimates.A study published this Wednesday in Nature magazine attributes to major greenhouse gas emitters the responsibility of trillions of dollars for global climate damage.Research measures the impact of human warming on the economy. Analysis divides damage between states and companies in the hydrocarbon sector. According to experts, US emissions between 1990 and 2020 t…
Climate Assumption Busted: Mega-Volcano, Falling CO₂
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DECRYPTAGE - Past emissions have already caused many economic losses on the planet, and their cost will be tenfold by the end of the century, researchers in Nature calculate.
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