Researchers said the findings, published in the journal Climatic Change, could provide opportunities for climate liability claims between individual countries.
An aerial view of Phillips 66 oil refinery is seen in Linden, New Jersey, United States on March 8, 2022. The U.S. and China, the world's two greatest greenhouse gas emitters, have each caused global economic losses of more than $1.8 trillion from 1990 to 2014, according to a new Dartmouth College study that connects emissions from individual countries to the economic damage of climate change in others. The report, published in the journal Climatic Change on Tuesday, found that a few top emitter countries are responsible for causing major economic losses for poorer countries that are more vulnerable to global…