Loss and damage from climate change
The recent succession of hurricanes in the Caribbean and floods in South Asia have taken the world over the tipping point in acknowledging that human induced climate change is not only real but is happening already.
Of course there are still some deniers like US President Donald Trump and his environment chief Pruitt, but they lack credibility.
Thus, the issue of attribution of such events to human induced climate change is now generally acknowledged in the public sphere. At the same time the issue of compensation to those people and communities who have suffered loss and damage from these climatic events is also being discussed. At the national level within the United States, for the losses suffered by the states of Texas from hurricane Harvey and Florida from Hurricane Irma, there will be compensation payments made from the Federal Government to the states as per US law. However, there is still no such mechanism for compensation under international law.
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