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"The US has inflicted more than $1.9tn in damage to other countries from the
effects of its greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new analysis that has
provided the first measurement of nations’ liability in stoking the climate
crisis.
The huge volume of planet-heating gases pumped out by the US, the largest
historical emitter, has caused such harm to other, mostly poor, countries
through heatwaves, crop failures and other consequences that the US is
responsible for $1.91tn in lost global income since 1990, the study found.
This puts the US ahead of China, currently the world’s leading emitter,
Russian, India and Brazil as the next largest contributors to global economic
damage through their emissions. Combined, these five leading culprits have
caused a total of $6tn in losses worldwide, or about 11% of annual global GDP,
since 1990 by fueling climate breakdown.
“It’s a huge number,” said Chris Callahan, a researcher at Dartmouth College
and lead author of the study, of the overall economic loss. “It’s not
surprising that the US and China are at the top of that list but the numbers
really are very stark. For the first time, we can show that a country’s
emissions can be traced to specific harm.”
The Dartmouth researchers combined a number of different models, showing
factors such as emissions, local climate conditions and economic changes, to
ascertain the precise impact of an individual country’s contribution to the
climate crisis. They looked for these links over a period spanning 1990 to
2014, with the research published in the journal
Climatic Change."
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