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Implications of event attribution for loss and damage policy
Author(s) -
Parker Hannah R.,
Cornforth Rosalind J.,
Boyd Emily,
James Rachel,
Otto Friederike E. L.,
Allen Myles R.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2542
Subject(s) - loss and damage , attribution , climate change , greenhouse gas , convention , environmental resource management , event (particle physics) , united nations framework convention on climate change , environmental science , natural resource economics , environmental planning , political science , economics , ecology , kyoto protocol , psychology , engineering , forensic engineering , social psychology , physics , quantum mechanics , law , biology
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has established the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) to deal with loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, including extreme events, in developing countries. It is not yet known whether events will need to be attributed to anthropogenic climate change to be considered under the WIM. Attribution is possible for some extreme events ‐ a climate model assessment can estimate how greenhouse gas emissions have affected the likelihood of their occurrence. Dialogue between scientists and stakeholders is required to establish whether, and how, this science could play a role in the WIM.