Dartmouth College study<\/a> found that just five of the world\u2019s top emitters of planet-warming gases\u2014the United States, China, Russia, India, and Brazil\u2014caused around a $6 trillion loss in gross domestic product from 1990 to 2014, or about 11% of total global GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe study also shows that the US and China\u2014the two biggest contributors to the climate crisis\u2014individually caused global economic losses of more than $1.8 trillion each during that period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study\u2019s authors said this is the first time scientists have connected the dots between one country\u2019s fossil fuel emissions and the economic harm those emissions have done to other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world\u2019s wealthiest countries have already agreed to pay into a global climate finance fund, though rich countries have shirked deadlines on payments to that fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts told CNN that having a rich set of data to show how much poorer nations\u2019 economies have been harmed could increase the pressure on richer nations at this year\u2019s summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cScientific studies show that high emitters no longer have a leg to stand on in avoiding their obligations to address loss and damage,\u201d said Bahamian climate scientist Adelle Thomas of Climate Analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recent studies \u201cincreasingly and overwhelmingly show that loss and damage is already crippling developing countries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the U.S., the countries that caused the most damage since 1990 are China ($1.8 trillion), Russia ($986 billion), India ($809 billion) and Brazil ($528 billion), the study authors figured. Just the United States and China caused about one-third of the world\u2019s climate damage. [IDN-InDepthNews \u2014 02 August 2022]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Image: Desertification and drought. Credit: UNCCD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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